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William Rudgard

Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention

William is a social epidemiologist in the Department for Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on identifying cost-effective combinations of interventions to promote child/ adolescent health and education across Africa. He is an honorary research affiliate in the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town.

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Publications

Rudgard WE, Obiesie S (equal first author), Desmond C, Casale M, Cluver L. Assessing the cost-effectiveness of economic strengthening and parenting support for preventing violence against adolescents in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: An economic modelling study using non-randomised data. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023. 3(8): e0001666. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001666

Rudgard WE, Saminathen MG (equal first author), Orkin M, Banougnin BH, Toska E. Protective factors for adolescent sexual risk behaviours and experiences linked to HIV infection in South Africa: a three-wave longitudinal analysis of caregiving, education, food security, and social protection. BMC Public Health. 2023. 23, 1452. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16373-5

Rudgard WE, Dzumbunu SP, Yates R, Toska E, Stockl H, Hertzog L, Emaway D, Cluver LD. Multiple Impacts of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing: a Quasi-Experimental Study 2002-2013. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2022. 71(3), 308-316. doi: 1016/j.jadohealth.2022.04.010