Associate Professor Frederic Sitas

Adjunct Associate Professor

BSc (U. WITS), MSc (Med) (U. WITS), MSc (Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), D.Phil (Epidemiology) (U. Oxford)

Medicine & Health
School of Population Health

A/Prof Freddy Sitas is a Director at Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW.  He has a D Phil in Epidemiology from Oxford University, an MSc in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MSc (MED) from WITS University, South Africa. He has made a significant contribution in the design and implementation of policy relevant population and clinical infrastructure studies on chronic disease prevention. He has worked extensively with cancer, mortality statis...

Phone
+61-2-90658007
E-mail
F.Sitas@unsw.edu.au
Location
Level 3 AGSM

George Oettlè Award (2015) for contribution to cancer research

2015 Carnegie Corporation of New York-Witwatersrand University Diaspora Fellow

Smoking questions on death notification forms - Implementation in Australian Jurisdictions - Analysis of records from South Africa and Tianjin Municipality (MRC South Africa, University of Oxford, CDC Tianjin). 

Smoking cessation after cancer; Clinical Oncological Society of Australia policy review and Cancer Epidemiology Supplement (2022) 

EVOLVING RISK FACTORS FOR CANCERS IN AFRICAN POPULATIONS: Lifestyle, infection, genetic susceptibility and cancer in South Africa:
development of research capacity and an evidence base for cancer control (MRC South Africa, German Cancer Research Centre, Kings College London, MRC AIDS Virus Research Institute, Uganda, National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa)

Stop smoking, start living - hospital ward-based smoking cessation intervention in South Eastern Sydney, South Western Sydney and Mid-North Coast Local Health Districts

Implementation and evaluation of "Shisha No Thanks" intervention 

COVID-19, Lower Respiratory Tract infections and Smoking.  

 

My Research Supervision

Melitah Motlhale- PhD - WITS University - Epidemiology of Kaposi Sarcoma in South Africa (completed Dec 2022)

Mwiza Gideon Singini - PhD - WITS University - seroepidemiology of high risk HPV and detection of cervical cancer (competed Dec 2022)

Ellana Yeoh BPH capstone project (competed Dec 2022)

Jiayue (Nicole) Wang MPH (current)