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Sybil Majokweni, MPH
Senior Research Assistant

Hlombekazi Sybil Majokweni is a Junior Research Fellow in the HIV Mental Health Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. She currently works on Project Someleze, a coping intervention for HIV+ women with sexual trauma, in collaboration with Columbia University and Project Khanya, a stepped care, peer-delivered intervention to improve ART adherence and SUD in primary care with the Maryland University Global Mental Health and Addiction Program. She holds a masters degree in Public Health specializing in Health Economics which is driven by her interest in public health policy and the cost of health care in low- and middle-income countries.

Her main research interest is the economic feasibility of up-scaling evidence-based interventions in developing countries. Sybil has worked on a parenting randomized control trial with Oxford University and a pre-treatment study on substance using women in South Africa with the South African Medical Research Council.

Education:

University of Cape Town

MPH in Health Economics

University of Fort Hare
BSoc Sc Hons in Sociology and Political Studies