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25th Annual Alice Hamilton Lecture

Mineworkers’ Health in South Africa

The Perfect Storm of Dust, Tuberculosis and HIV

 

SPEAKER:

Rodney Ehrlich, MD

Emeritus Professor

School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town

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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:

*To illustrate how an epidemic of occupational lung disease can occur when

 you are not looking

*To understand the complex relationship between tuberculosis, and silicosis and HIV infection

 

BIOGRPAHY:

Emeritus Professor Rodney Ehrlich, MBChB, DOH, FCPHM(SA), PhD, is currently Senior Research Scholar at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, after a career as Professor jointly in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine and the Department of Medicine at UCT. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, and has held adjunct appointments at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. He was a Gruber Fellow in Global Health Justice at Yale University in 2013.  He has been engaged with mining related lung disease throughout his career as a clinician, educator and researcher, and has a particular interest in diseases caused by silica dust, including tuberculosis, the epidemiology of these diseases in the South African migrant miner population, and workers’ compensation. He is currently pursuing interdisciplinary collaborations examining the co-immunology of silica and tuberculosis, morbidity and mortality estimation among the ex-miner population and social determinants of occupational lung disease.

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