FACULTY SENIOR ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & PROMOTIONS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,

School of Public Health

Dr Sumaya Mall

Dr Mall graduated with an MPH in Public Health (2007) from the University of Cape Town, and an MSc in Epidemiology (2015) from Columbia University, USA, and obtained a PhD in Public Mental Health (2012) from Stellenbosch University.

Dr Mall’s research is focused on the area of Psychiatric Epidemiology with a particular focus on early childhood trauma. She has a number of productive collaborations both within the School and outside the School. For an academic at a relatively early stage of her career, her publication record is outstanding and in addition, she has obtained an NRF Y2 rating. She has co-authored 56 publications, as the first author on 17, and the senior author on 8.

Within the School, she lectures on non-communicable disease epidemiology and Introduction to Epidemiology for health researchers within the MSc Epidemiology programme, the MSc and MPH research methods courses, and the Health Measurement 1 and 2 courses in the MPH programme. Outside of the School, she has taught epidemiology and biostatistics to psychiatry registrars, and has assessed research protocols in the anthropology and psychology departments. Dr Mall has played a key role in curriculum development for a number of courses: combining content for Adapting and implementing evidence-based intervention course with that for Epidemiology for health researchers 1 in the MSc Epidemiology programme; and reviewing and revising the MPH Health and Society, and Health Measurement 2 courses.

Dr Mall has supervised 20 Masters students to completion since 2016 and is currently supervising nine Masters and three PhD students, with a focus in epidemiology, implementation science, metaanalysis and systematic reviews.

Dr Mall is the co-chair of the School of Public Health Research Committee, which includes facilitating academic meetings on research, potential research collaborations, and career development activities for academic staff, and professional and administrative staff (PAS). She co- leads the Sheiham Family Programme on social determinants of health in the school, with the objective of building teaching and research capacity in social determinants of health, and social epidemiology.

We congratulate Dr Mall on her promotion to Associate Professor