Heidi van Rooyen is a registered clinical psychologist with a PhD from the University of KwaZulu Natal. Her PhD explored the interactional processes of voluntary counselling and testing through an analysis of video-tapes of client-counsellor interactions from various sites in South Africa.
Before joining the HSRC in February 2004, she was a research coordinator and lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal in the Department of Psychology.
Her areas of research interest include: HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS counselling and testing, health education and health promotion and HIV/AIDS programme evaluation, and community engagement in research.
Dr van Rooyen?s HSRC publications include Using participatory methods and geographic information systems (GIS) to prepare for an HIV community-based trial in Vulindlela, South Africa (Project Accept- HPTN 043). Journal of Community Psychology,37 (1), 41-57 Chirowodza, A., van Rooyen, H., Joseph, P., Sikotoyi, S., Richter, L., & Coates, P (2009); A comparison of HIV-related stigma in four countries: Negative attitudes and perceived acts of discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS. Social Science and Medicine, 68, 2279-2287. Genberg, B.L., Hlavka, Z., Konda, K.A., Maman, S; Chariyalertsak, S., Chingono, A., Mwambo, J., Modiba, P., van Rooyen, H., & Celentano, D (2009); Using Participatory Mapping to Inform a Community-Randomized Trial of HIV Counseling and Testing. Field Methods, 21 (4), 368?387 Maman, S; Lane, T; Ntogwisangu, J; Modiba, P; van Rooyen, H; Timbe, A; Visrutaratna, S; and K. Fritz (2009); Universal HIV testing of infants at immunisation clinics in high HIV prevalence settings: acceptable, feasible and potential for high returns. AIDS, 23, 1851-1857 Rollins, N., Mzolo, S., Moodley, T., Esterhuizen, T and van Rooyen, H. (2009), Only skin deep: Limitations of public health understanding of male circumcision in South Africa.
South African Medical Journal, 99, 9, 647Sithole, B.; Mbhele, L., van Rooyen, H., Khumalo-Sakutukwa, G., Richter, L. (2009); A community-based intervention to reduce HIV incidence in populations at risk for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 49(4), 422-431.Wong, L.H., van Rooyen, H., Modiba, P., Richter, L., Gray, G., McIntyre, J.A., Dunkel Schetter, C., and Coates, T (2009); Test and Tell: Correlates and Consequences of Testing and Disclosure of HIV Status in South Africa (HPTN 043 Project Accept). Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 50, 215?222, Scaling up HIV testing in resource-constrained settings: debates on the role of VCT and routine opt-in or opt-out HIV testing. Southern African. Journal of HIV
Medicine (20): 45 - 49. Strode, A., van Rooyen, H., Heywood, M., Abdool Karim, Q. (2005). |
