PERSONAL

Position:Associate Professor at University of Pretoria, School of Health Systems & Public Health, Jointly appointed as Manager of Integrated Community Health Programmes in the Highveld Region of Mpumalanga Province

Previous Positions Held: Research Analyst at Duke University Medical Centre; Snr Scientist at CERSA/MRC; Drug Utilization Manager at AMA/HealthRIGHT Disease Outcome Specialist at Southern Health Care

JV QUALIFICATIONS M-Pharm (UNC-CH), MPH (Harvard), FDIS, PhD (UDW)

UNIVERSITY WHERE OBTAINED

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Harvard (Cambridge), Residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital and Fellowship in Drug Information Specialization at Massachussetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachussetts).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Pharmaco-Epidemiology and Pharmacovigilance

Drug Utilization Reviews and pharmacoeconomics,

Rational Drug Use & Essential Drugs Concept

Ethnomedicine and Ethnopharmacology

Managed Health Care District Health Services and delivery of Primary Health Care

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

(last 5 years)

-TT Ziqubu-Page. Emerging trends in the first year of implementation of District Health Services in the Highveld region of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Sent to the Bulletin of World Health Organization - in review

-TT Ziqubu-Page, M Chetty, CM Dangor & R Phahla. The effect of two Herbal Preparations on the blood glucose levels of rats with Streptozotocin-induced hyperglycaemia. Sent to Planta Med - awaiting reply

-TT Ziqubu-Page, CM Dangor, LE Makubalo et al. Determinants of Traditional Medicine use by Diabetic patients in the Northern KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Accepted by curare - in press

-TT Ziqubu-Page & H Coetzer. Prescription-of-the-Month. SAMJ 1996; 86 (9) : Managed Care & Quality Review Supplement, pg 7.

-TT Ziqubu-Page & H Coetzer. Prescription-of-the-Month. SAMJ 1996; 86 (5): Managed Care & Quality Review Supplement.

-JT Hanlon, GG Fillenbaum, SA Studenski, TT Ziqubu-Page, WE Wall. Suboptimal Analgesic Use In Community Dwelling Elderly. Ann Pharmacother 1996; 30: 739-44.

-TT.Ziqubu-Page. Pharmacist's viewpoint: A standardized professional fee versus profit oriented pharmacy services. South African Pharmaceutical Journal 1996; 63 (3): 106-107.

-SS Abdool Karim, G Pillai, TT Ziqubu-Page, MH Cassimjee & NS Morar. Potential savings from generic prescribing and generic substitution in South Africa. Health Policy and Planning 1996; 11 (2): 198-205. -SS Abdool Karim, TT Ziqubu-Page & R Arendse. Bridging the Gap

- Potential for a Health Care Partnership between African Traditional Healers and Biomedical Personnel in South Africa. Contract report (Commissioned by MASA). MRC Durban. SAMJ (supplement) 84: 1s-26s, December1994.

-GG Fillenbaum, JT Hanlon, EM Corder, TT Ziqubu-Page, WE Wall & D Brock. Prescription and Nonprescription Drug use Among Black and White Community-residing Elderly. American Journal of Public Health, 1993, 83: 1577 - 1582.

UNPUBLISHED REPORTS (past 2 years)

-TT Ziqubu-Page. May 1998 Review of Primary Health Care Programmes in the Highveld Region - The first year of District Health Services.

-TT Ziqubu-Page, J Blitz, CB Ijsselmuiden. November 1998 Community Presentations to the Health Standing Committee on health care issues. Commissioned by the Gauteng Legislature. Have attended a Summer Institute

- a four weeks course on Monitoring and Evaluation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (May-June 1999).

LANGUAGES

Speaks seven (7) of South African languages fluently - Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Pedi, English & Afrikaans plus Swahili, a language spoken in Central and East Africa.

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E-Mail: tzpage@medic.up.ac.za