The EFFECT Core Team
Coordinating Sites
- Mycology Division, WITS Health Consortium Based at Centre for HAIs, AMR and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg
- Cryptococcal Meningitis Group, Research Centre for Global Health, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London
Coordinating Site Staff
- Lead Clinician: Dr Kyla Comins
- Trial Manager: Michelle Eriksson
- Trial Coordinator: Jack Adams
- Trial Administrator: Bongiwe Nkambule
- Database Lead: Erik van Widenfelt
- Statistician: Professor Duolao Wang
International Chief Investigators
- Professor Nelesh Govender, Mycology Division, WITS Health Consortium Based at Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
- Dr Síle Molloy, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London
Co-Investigators
- Professor Thomas Harrison, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London
- Professor Shabbar Jaffar, Institute for Global Health, University College London
- Professor Graeme Meintjes, nstitute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
- Professor Sayoki Mfinanga, National Institute for Medical Research, Muhimbili Centre, Dar es Salaam
- Dr Sokoine Lesikari, National Institute for Medical Research, Muhimbili Centre, Dar es Salaam
- Professor Joseph Jarvis, Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and TroPIcal Diseases, London School of Hygiene and TroPIcal Medicine
- Dr Charlotte Schutz, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
- Dr Kyla Comins, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
- Professor Louis Niessen, Centre of Global Health Economics Departments of International Public Health and Clinical Sciences,Liverpool School of TroPIcal Medicine
- Professor Duolao Wang, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics, Liverpool School of TroPIcal Medicine
- Dr Douglas Wilson, Department of Internal Medicine, Harry Gwala Regional HosPItal
- Prof Mahomed-Yunus Moosa, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Clinical Health Sciences, UKZN
- Prof Ebrahim Variava, Department of Internal Medicine, Klerksdorp Tshepong HosPItal Complex and Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand
- Dr Jeremy Nel, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand
- Dr John Black, Department of Internal Medicine, Livingstone Tertiary HosPItal
- Dr Marise Bremer, WITS Health Consortium
- Dr Nowshad Alam, Department of Medicine, Dora Nginza HosPItal
- Dr Azma Simba, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dodoma, Tanzania
- Dr James Tumaini Kengia, President's Office Regional Administration and Local Government offices, Dodoma, Tanzania
- Dr Angela Loyse, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London
- Dr Rachel Wake, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London
- Dr David Lawrence, Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and TroPIcal Diseases, London School of Hygiene and TroPIcal Medicine
- Prof Thuy Le, Department of Medicine, Duke University
- Dr Vu Quoc Dat, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University
Trial Management Group
The TMG is responsible for the day-to-day running and management of the trial and made up of the Chief Investigators, supported by lead investigators (clinical and non-clinical) as needed and members of the co-ordinating centre.
Trial Steering Committee
The TSC has membership from the TMG (Professor Nelesh Govender, Dr Síle Molloy, Professor Tom Harrison, Professor Graeme Meintjes, Professor Sayoki Mfinanga, Professor Shabbar Jaffar and Prof John Perfect, Duke University, Durham (the independent academic chair), Dr Cecilia Kanyama (UNC Project, Malawi); Prof Gary Maartens (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Prof Francois Venter (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and Prof Chien-Ching Hung (National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan)
The Data Monitoring Comittee
Prof Andrew Nunn, UCL, UK (Chair, Statistician), Halima Dawood, University of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa (Trialist/Infectious Diseases Clinician), Saidi Edwaga, Tanzania (retired public health consultant, current chair TRIP Project Steering Committee and >20 years of experience in HIV and TB research) and Mina Hosseinipour, UNC Project, Malawi (Clinician/trialist).
