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Prof Zukiswa Zingela

Professor Zukiswa Zingela is the Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at Nelson Mandela University and the previous Head of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and Walter Sisulu University. She holds a number of other leadership positions nationally and internationally which include serving as the second vice president of the International Narcotics Control Board and also The Chair of The Standing Committee on Estimates of The Board and being. Africa.

Prof Zingela is a registered specialist psychiatrist with more than two decades of experience in the profession and a strong history of teaching, research, and mentorship. She holds an MBCHB from University of KwaZulu Natal, an MMed Psych from University of Pretoria a FCPsych from The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa and a PhD Psychology from Nelson Mandela University. Her areas of interest and research publications are on Substance Misuse, Catatonia, Traditional Medicine and mental health, substance misuse and first episode psychosis, healthcare worker mental health, occupational mental health, and public mental health. Her mist recent project includes a book on enhancing coping skills, EPT to Bloom and a Short Learning Programme for strengthening coping skills, based on the book.

Designation:

Executive Dean

Email:

zukiswa.zingela@mandela.ac.za

Contact Number: 

0415042815

Faculty:

Health Sciences

Department:

Office of the Executive Dean

Qualifications:

PhD Psychology; Fellow of the College of Psychiatrists of South Africa; Master of Medicine with Specialisation in Psychiatry; Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery

Professional Memberships:

HPCSA and GMC (UK)

Orcid ID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3425-1145

NRF Rating: 

C3

Research Interests:

  • Substance Misuse

  • Catatonia

  • Traditional Medicine and Mental Health

  • Substance Misuse and First Episode Psychosis

  • Healthcare Worker Mental Health

  • Occupational Mental Health, and Public Mental Health

Current non-degree Research Projects:

  1. Enhanced Coping Skills

  2. Doctor mental health

  3. Student mental health

Current Final Year Undergraduate/Honours Research Projects:

N/A

Number of currently supervised Masters and PhD candidates (2023 to 2024):

  • Masters: 3

  • PhD: 2

Research Output 2023 to 2024:

  1. Thungana, Y. A., Zingela, Z., Van Wyk, S. J., Kim, H. H., Ametaj, A., Stevenson, A., Stroud, R. E., Stein, D. J., & Gelaye, B. (2023). Psychosis screening questionnaire: Exploring its factor structure among South African adults. South African Journal of Psychiatry, 29. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v29i0.2051

  2. Milkias, B., Arinda, A., Girma, E., Akena, D., Atwoli, L., Chibnik, L. B., Kariuki, S., Newton, C., Post, K., Stein, D., Stroud, R., Teferra, S., Zingela, Z., Kim, H., & Gelaye, B. (2023). Physical Comorbidity and Multimorbidity Among Adults with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Bipolar Disorder in Sub-Saharan Africa. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 75, S33—S34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2023.08.069

  3. Chibnik, L., Post, K., Akena, D., Atwoli, L., Kariuki, S., Koenen, K., Newton, C., Stein, D., Teferra, S., Zingela, Z., & Gelaye, B. (2023). Fostering Scientific Inclusion in Global Psychiatric Genetics: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 75, S32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2023.08.067

  4. Kipkemoi, P., Mufford, M.-A., Akena, D., Atwoli, L., Chibnik, L., Gelaye, B., Kariuki, S., Koenen, K., Newton, C., Post, K., Stein, D., Stroud, R., Teferra, S., Zingela, Z., & Korte, K. (2023). W85. Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the UBACC Questionnaire in Assessing Capacity to Consent in Diverse African Populations. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 75, S149—S150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2023.08.272

  5. Campbell, M., Odokonyero, R., Akena, D., Chibnik, L., Gelaye, B., Kariuki, S., Koenen, K., Newton, C., Post, K., Stein, D., Stroud, R., Teferra, S., Zingela, Z., & Hook, K. (2023). Sociodemographic Correlates of Substance Use and Psychosis in a Large-Scale African Cohort. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 75, S32— S33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2023.08.068

  6. Sieberts, Solveig & Burn, Anne-Marie & Carey, Emma & Carlson, Sonia & Fernandes, Blossom & Kalha, Jasmine & Lindani, Simthembile & Marten, Carly & Neelakantan, Lakshmi & Ranganathan, Swetha & Sams, Nichole & Scanlan, Erin & Shah, Himani & Sumant, Sushmita & Suver, Christine & Tummalacherla, Meghasyam & Velloza, Jennifer & Areán, Patricia & Collins, Pamela & Doerr, Megan. (2023). Targeted recruitment and the role of choice in the engagement of youth in a randomised smartphone-based mental health study in India, South Africa, and the UK: results from the MindKind Study. Wellcome Open Research. 8. 334. 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19383.1.

  7. Sorsdahl, K., Petersen, I., Myers, B., Zingela, Z., Lund, C., & van der Westhuizen, C. (2023). A reflection of the current status of the mental healthcare system in South Africa. SSM - Mental Health, 100247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100247

  8. Zingela, Z., Sokudela, F., Thungana, Y., & van Wyk, S. (2023). Ethical principles, challenges and opportunities when conducting genetic counselling for schizophrenia. Frontiers in psychiatry, 14, 1040026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1040026

  9. Sieberts, S. K., Marten, C., Bampton, E., Björling, E. A., Burn, A. M., Carey, E. G., Carlson, S., Fernandes, B., Kalha, J., Lindani, S., Masomera, H., Neelakantan, L., Pasquale, L., Ranganathan, S., Joy Scanlan, E., Shah, H., Sibisi, R., Sumant, S., Suver, C., Thungana, Y., … Doerr, M. (2023). Young people's data governance preferences for their mental health data: MindKind Study findings from India, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. PloS one, 18(4), e0279857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279857

  10. Beath, N., Subramaney, U., Zingela, Z., Chiliza, B., Joska, J. A., Kotzé, C., Ramlall, S., & Seedat, S. (2023). South Africa's Psychiatric training capacity in 2008 and in 2018. Has training capacity improved? The South African journal of psychiatry: SAJP: the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa, 29, 1988. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.29i0.1988

  11. Korte, K., Jaguga, F., Kim, H., Stroud, R., Stevenson, A., Akena, D., . . . Gelaye, B. (2023). Psychometric properties of the mini international neuropsychiatric interview (MINI) psychosis module: A Sub-Saharan Africa cross country comparison. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0033291723000296

  12. Stevenson, A., Beltran, M., Misra, S., Ametaj, A. A., Bronkhorst, A., Gelaye, B., Koenen, K. C., Pretorius, A., Stein, D. J., & Zingela, Z. (2023). Trauma exposure and psychometric properties of the life events checklist among adults in South Africa. European journal of psychotraumatology, 14(1), 2172257. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2172257

  13. Delanerolle, G., Cavalini, H., Taylor, J., Hinchliff, S., Talaulikar, V., Zingela, Z., Teck Hock, T., Wong, X.-S., Lee, K.-Y., Soon-Yit, J., Pati, S., Rathnayake, N., Sundarpperuma, T., Mudalige, T., Dassanayake, L., Dassanayake, D., Herath, P., Pathiraja, V., Kurmi, O., … Phiri, P. (2023). An Exploration of the Mental Health Impact among Menopausal Women: The Marie Project Protocol (International Arm). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.26.23299012

  14. Amantia Ametaj, Christy A. Denckla, Anne Stevenson, Rocky Stroud, Jasmine Hall, Linnet Ongeri, Barkot Milkias, Jacob Hoffman, Naisanga Molly, Dickens Akena,Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Edith K. Kwobah, Lukoye Atwoli, Stella Gichuru, Solomon Teferra, Melkam Alemayehu, Zukiswa Zingela, Dan J. SteinAdele Pretorius, Charles RJC Newton, Rehema Mwema,15 Symon M. Kariuki, Karestan C. Koenen, & Bizu Gelaye. (2023). Cross-cultural equivalence of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) across four African countries in a multinational study of adults

  15. Kisiang’ani, I. B., Aden, M., Mwangi, H. R., Dickens Akena, Alemayehu, M., Barasa, J., Bizu Gelaye, Gichuru, S., Kariuki, S. M., Kwobah, E. K., Kyebuzibwa, J., Mwema, R. M., Newton, C. R. J. C., Linnet Ongeri, Pretorius, A., Stein, D. J., Stevenson, A., Stroud, R. E., Teferra, S., & Zukiswa Zingela. (2024). Exploring Psychotic Symptoms Among Substance-Naïve Individuals and Recent Abstainers Without a Psychosis Diagnosis: A Cross-Country Study Across Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and South Africa. Psychiatry Research, 116253– 116253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.116253

  16. Tindi, K. B. B., Kalungi, A., Kinyanda, E., Gelaye, B., Martin, A. R., Galiwango, R., Ssembajjwe, W., Kirumira, F., Pretorius, A., Stevenson, A., Newton, C. R. J. C., Stein, D. J., Atkinson, E. G., Mwesiga, E. K., Kyebuzibwa, J., Chibnik, L. B., Atwoli, L., Baker, M., Alemayehu, M., Mwende, R. M.,Akena, D. H., ….. Zingela. Z. (2024). Psychological Distress Among Ethnically Diverse Participants from Eastern and Southern Africa. JAMA network open, 7(10), e2438304. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38304

  17. Ramirez-Diaz, A. M., Diaz-Zuluaga, A. M., Stroud, R. E., Vreeker, A., Bitta, M. A., Franjo Ivankovic, Wootton, O., Whiteman, C. A., Mountcastle, H., Jha, S. C., Georgakopoulos, P., Kaur, I., Mena, L., Assaf, S., Luiz, A., Ziebold, C., Charles, Stein, D. J., Dickens Akena, & Valencia-Echeverry, J….. Zingela, Z. (2024). Phenotype harmonization and analysis for The Populations Underrepresented in Mental illness Association Studies (the PUMAS Project). MedRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.02.24314732

  18. Boltz, T. A., Chu, B. B., Liao, C., Sealock, J. M., Ye, R., Majara, L., Fu, J. M., Service, S., Zhan, L., Medland, S. E., Chapman, S. B., Rubinacci, S., DeFelice, M., Grimsby, J. L., Abebe, T., Alemayehu, M., Ashaba, F. K., Atkinson, E. G., Bigdeli, T., & Bradway, A. B……. Zingela, Z. (2024). A blended genome and exome sequencing method captures genetic variation in an unbiased, high-quality, and costeffective manner. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.06.611689

  19. Kipkemoi, P., Mufford, M. S., Akena, D., Alemayehu, M., Atwoli, L., Chibnik, L. B., Gelaye, B., Gichuru, S., Kariuki, S. M., Koenen, K. C., Kwobah, E., Kyebuzibwa, J., Mwema, R. M., Newton, C. R. J. C., Pretorius, A., Stein, D. J., Stevenson, A., Stroud, R. E., 2nd, Teferra, S., Zingela, Z., … Korte, K. J. (2024). Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the UBACC questionnaire in a multi-country psychiatric study in Africa. Comprehensive psychiatry, 135, 152526. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152526

  20. Gayathri Delanerolle, Heitor Cavalini, Julie Taylor, Sharron Hinchcliffe, Vikram Talaulikar, Zukiswa Zingela, Toh Teck Hock,Sanghamitra Pati, Nirmala Rathnayake, Om Kurmi, Ashish Shetty, Muhammed Irfan, Rabia Kareem, George Uchenna, Eleje Helen Kemp, Nana Mintah Afful, Fred Kwame Tweneboah Koduah, Cristina Laguna Benetti Pinto, Mamatha S, Ieera Aggarwal, Subrata Kumar Palo, Jian Qing Shi and Peter Phiri*. An Exploration of the Mental Health impact among Menopausal Women: The MARIE Project Protocol (International Arm). Am J Biomed Sci & Res. 2024 - 22(5). AJBSR.MS.ID.002991. DOI:10.34297/AJBSR.2024.22.002991

  21. Peter Phiri, Gayathri Delanerolle, Oliver Hope, Tharangini Murugaiyan, Geoffrey Dimba, Shanaya Rathod, Zukiswa Zingela. Phiri P, Delanerolle G, Hope O, Murugaiyan T, Dimba G, Rathod S, Zingela Z. Catatonia: A deep dive into its unfathomable depths. World J Psychiatry 2024; 14(2): 210-214 [PMID: 38464767 DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i2.210]

  22. Amantia A. Ametaj, Christy A. Denckla, Anne Stevenson, Rocky E. Stroud, Jasmine Hall, Linnet Ongeri, Barkot Milkias, Jacob Hoffman, Molly Naisanga, Dickens Akena, Joseph Kyebuzibwa, Edith K. Kwobah, Lukoye Atwoli, Stella Gichuru, Solomon Teferra, Melkam Alemayehu, Zukiswa Zingela, Dan J. Stein, Adele Pretorius, Charles R.J.C. Newton, Rehema M. Mwema, Symon M. Kariuki, Karestan C. Koenen, Bizu Gelaye. Cross-cultural equivalence of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) across four African countries in a multi-national study of adults. SSM - Mental Health, Volume 5, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100300.

  23. Korte, K. J., Jaguga, F., Kim, H. H., Stroud, R. E., Stevenson, A., Dickens Akena, Lukoye Atwoli, Gichuru, S., James, R., Kwobah, E., Kariuki, S. M., Kyebuzibwa, J., Mwema, R. M., Charles, Zukiswa Zingela, Stein, D. J., Alemayehu, M., Teferra, S., Koenen, K. C., & Bizu Gelaye. (2024). Psychometric Properties of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) Psychosis Module: A SubSaharan Africa Cross Country Comparison – CORRIGENDUM. Psychological Medicine, 54(2), 436–436. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291723003835

  24. Megan Loraine Campbell, Odokonyero, R., Dickens Akena, Alemayehu, M., Lukoye Atwoli, Chibnik, L. B., Bizu Gelaye, Gichuru, S., Kariuki, S. M., Koenen, K., Edith Kamaru Kwobah, Kyebuzibwa, J., Rehema Mwema, Newton, C., Post, K., Stevenson, A., Stroud, R. E., Teferra, S., Zukiswa Zingela, & Stein, D. J. (2024). The Sociodemographic Influences of Substance Use and Psychosis in an African Cohort. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4900550

Current Research Collaborations within your Department or Discipline:

  1. Havard, MIT UCT in NeuroGap

  2. UCT in SAX project

  3. UJ, SAMRC, SMU in men who use project substances

  4. SAGE and Oxford in MindKind project

  5. The MariE project

  6. PUMAS Project

Current Inter-Disciplinary/Multi-Disciplinary/Trans-Disciplinary Research Collaborations:

N/A




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