Prof. Heidi Van Rooyen
Professor Heidi van Rooyen is the Executive Director of the Human and Social Development Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. This multidisciplinary programme employs critical humanities and social sciences lenses to explore complex questions about society and groups of people living in adversity over the life course. Heidi is an Honorary Professor at WITS University. For more than two decades her work has addressed HIV risks and vulnerability as well as the broader contexts and inequalities that shape this risk. Her current research focuses on two areas: the influence of sexual orientation and gender identity as social determinants of health, and issues of race and identity.
Recent
Pregnant women living with HIV (WLH) supported at clinics by peer WLH: a cluster randomized trial
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HIV status disclosure to families for social support in South Africa (NIMH Project Accept/HPTN 043)
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Looking to the future: South African men and women negotiating HIV risk and relationship intimacy
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Only skin deep: limitations of public health understanding of male circumcision in South Africa
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Using participatory mapping to inform a community-randomized trial of HIV counseling and testing
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Motivating staff
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