Reshma Kassanjee, PhD

Kassanjee is a senior research officer at the UCT Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) and a member of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS – Southern Africa consortium.
Her research to date has centred on methods for estimating the rate of new HIV infections, and she is currently focusing on using observational data from HIV cohorts to inform global policy and decision-making. As part of her work, Kassanjee also models the dynamics of disease transmission to better understand epidemics and design interventions.