Rate My Professor Andrew Tomita

Andrew Tomita is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Public Health at the College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. He holds a PhD from Columbia University School of Social Work awarded in 2011, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs awarded in 2006, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University School of Management awarded in 2000. His research focuses on social epidemiology, examining the role of social and natural environments in mental health, HIV, and TB in sub-Saharan Africa. Tomita is also a Research Associate at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP). He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including studies on green environments and incident depression published in The Lancet Planetary Health in 2017, space-time clustering of tuberculosis and the impact of ART scale-up published in Scientific Reports in 2019, and spatial clustering of food insecurity and its association with depression published in Scientific Reports in 2020. Additional work includes investigations into exposure to waste sites and health impacts published in The Lancet Planetary Health in 2020, as well as research on neurocognitive functioning in MDR-TB patients and major depression among individuals with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Tomita has contributed to studies on HIV incidence, viral load, and social determinants of health in rural South African populations.