Our Team
Dr Sandy Pillay
Dr Pillay, a medical doctor and researcher, has spent more than 10 years involved in behavioural research in the fields of HIV and TB in South Africa. He led the successful Options project, a study which demonstrated tremendous success in reducing risky sexual behaviour among HIV positive people in KZN. He has extended this work to produce good results in the field of TB adherence. Dr Pillay is widely published in behavioural interventions which have been implemented in a South African setting.
Prof. Jeffrey Fisher
Professor Fisher is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut and the founding Director of its Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention and Policy (InCHIP). He developed the Information-Motivation-Behavioural skills (IMB) model of behaviour change and has published widely on interventions using this model. He has focussed on factors associated with HIV risk behaviour, increasing adherence to antiretroviral therapy and to health behaviour change in general. Professor Fisher has served on several committees, professional associations and boards related to mental health and behaviour.
Prof. Deborah Cornman
Professor Cornman is Associate Director of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention and Policy (InCHIP) at the University of Connecticut and a researcher in health behaviour change. She has worked extensively in developing countries including South Africa, Uganda and India and is widely published in the development and implementation of innovative behavioural change interventions. Professor Cornman, together with Professor Fisher and Dr Pillay have conducted exciting research in behavioural change strategies in KZN.
Dr Moise Muzigaba
Dr Muzigaba has a public health background with specialisation in epidemiology, biostatistics and program evaluation. He is Head of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Strategic Information Unit at the Enhancing Care Foundation. Dr Muzigaba is involved in developing and maintaining M&E systems, results based management (RBM), Implementation/ operations research, impact evaluation, and strategic information generation and dissemination. He is widely published and will provide technical expertise in the design and implementation of operations/ implementation research, develop, establish and maintain a monitoring and evaluation framework for various programs within the organization and provide technical assistance in writing up grant proposals, both programmatic and research-oriented.
