Professor Tim Quinlan
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Professor Tim Quinlan joined HEARD as the Research Director in 2002. He is an anthropologist by training with a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He has worked extensively in the fields of environmental management and traditional political authority. He brought to HEARD considerable experience in academic and applied research and training; notably, an understanding of designing and doing integrated research that is a foundation for multi-sectoral responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Since joining HEARD, he has assisted with developing the primary research orientation for HEARD, in addition to the organisation's extensive involvement in strategic planning in relation to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in and beyond south Africa.Tim has oversight of all projects at HEARD. |
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Academic Publications
- Quinlan, T and Veenstra, N. (2007) HIV/AIDS impact on health services: what have we learnt in the last five years? South African Medical Journal. 97(6): 422-423
Chapters in Books
- Van der Merwe, A. and Quinlan, T. (2010) Case study: Becoming a Learning Organisation - The process at an HIV/AIDS research unit in South Africa, in Coulson, N., Goldstone, G., Ntuli, A. and Pillay,N. Developing Capacity for Health: A practical approach. Heinemann, Johannesburg. pp:219-227.
- Quinlan, T. and Whiteside, A. (2006) Social and Economic Impact of the HIV pandemic. In: Beck E.J., Mays, N., Whiteside, A. and Zuniga, J.M. (eds). The HIV Pandemic: Local and Global Implications. Oxford, Oxford University Press
- Quinlan, T. and Willan, S. (2004) Finding Ways to Contain the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: South Africa 2004-5. In: Daniel, J., Southall, R. and Lutchman, J. (eds). The State of the Nation : South Africa 2004-2005, HSRC Press
- Quinlan, T. and Wallis, M. (2003) Local Government in Lesotho: the central role of chiefs, In: Ray, D. (ed.). Rural Local Government and Traditional Leadership in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean, Calgary, University of Calgary Press
- Desmond C. and Quinlan, T. (2002) Costs of Care and Support. In: Kelly, K., Parker, W and S. Gelb. HIV/AIDS, Economic and Governance in South Africa: Key Issues in Understanding Response, Johannesburg, USAID
Edited Books
- Ray, DI., Quinlan, T., Sharma, K., Clarke, TAO. (2011) Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance and Development, University of Calgary Press.
In Press
- Quinlan, T. (2010) 'Best practices' in South African HIV/AIDS workplace programmes: What's dated, what's good and what's on the horizon. Corporate Africa Newsletter
Journal Articles
- George, G., Atujuna, M., Gentile, J., Quinlan, T., Schmidt, P., Tobi, P., Renton, A. (2010) The Impact of ART Scale-Up on Health Workers: Evidence from two South African Provinces. AIDS Care Supplement: Expanding antiretroviral therapy provision in resource-constrained settings: social dynamics and policy challenges. Volume 22 Number Supplement 1
- O'Brien, K., Quinlan, T. Ziervogel, G. (2010) Vulnerability Interventions in the context of multiple stressors: Lessons from the Southern Africa Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI), Environmental Science & Policy, 12:1:23-32
- Quinlan, T., Whiteside A. (2009) Managing HIV/AIDS in Africa, HIV & AIDS Health Initiative Newsletter. The Corporate Council on Africa, Spring:12-13
- Casale, M., Drimie, S., Quinlan, T., and Ziervogel, G. (2009) Understanding vulnerability in southern Africa: comparative findings using a multiple-stressor approach in South Africa and Malawi. Regional Environmental Change, doi: 10.1007/s10113-009-0103-y
- O'Brien, K., Quinlan, T. Ziervogel, G. (2009) Vulnerability Interventions in the context of multiple stressors: Lessons from the Southern Africa Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI), Environmental Science & Policy, 12:1:23-32
- George, G. and Quinlan, T. (2008) Facing up to the challenges of achieving public-private sector partnerships as a means of development in Africa, in the context of HIV/AIDS. Eurohealth,14 (2):33-36
- George, G. and Quinlan, T. (2008) Health management in the private sector in the context of HIV/AIDS: progress and challenges faced by company programmes in South Africa. Sustainable Development, 17(1): 19-29
- Parikh, A., Bachman-DeSilva, M., Cakwe, M., Quinlan, T., Simon, J., Skalicky, A. and Zhuwau , T. (2007) Exploring the Cinderella Myth: Intra-household Differences in Child Well-being between Orphans and Non-Orphans in Amajuba District, South Africa. AIDS Special Supplement, Vol 21, Supplement No. 7, p.S95, November
- Quinlan, T and Veenstra, N. (2007) HIV/AIDS impact on health services: what have we learnt in the last five years? South African Medical Journal. 97 (6): 422-423
Journal Articles (Non-refereed)
- Quinlan, T. (2002) Hype, hope and a wise word from the street. Report on the 12th International Conference on AIDS and STDS in Africa, 9-13 December 2001, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, AIDS Analysis Africa, 12 (5) Feb/March, 2002
Journal Articles (Refereed)
- Quinlan, T. and Scogings, P. (2004) Why bio-physical and social scientists can speak the same language when addressing sustainable development, Environmental Science and Policy, 7:537-546
Newspaper Commentaries
- Quinlan, T. (2008) We must avoid becoming trapped in a sterile argument about AIDS . The Mercury 18 December 2008
Non-refereed Articles
- Quinlan, T. and Whiteside, A. (2009) Managing HIV/AIDS in Africa. The Corporate Council on Africa HIV/AIDS and Health Initiative Newsletter, Spring: 12-13
- Drimie, S., and Quinlan, T. (2009) Taking Stock of the Southern Africa Vulnerability Initiative. in IHDP Update, , Magazine of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental ChangeIssue 2, June, 19-24
Reports
- Dawad, S, Jobson, G, Ganie, S, Quinlan, T. (2009) Costing and Benefits of Comprehensive Care offered by the Valley Trust
- George, G, Quinlan, T, Reardon, C. (2009) Human Resources for Health: A Needs and Gaps Analysis of HRH in South Africa. A report commissioned by the European Union Regional HIV/AIDS Helpdesk
Reports and Papers
- Akintola, O. and Quinlan, T. (2003) Report of the Scientific Meeting on the Empirical Evidence for the Demographic and Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS, Durban.
- Quinlan, T and Whiteside, A. (2002) HIV/AIDS and African Agriculture, In: Proceedings of the Targetting Agricultural research for Development in the Semi-Arid Tropics of sub-Saharan Africa Conference, Institute for Crop Research in the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi
Research Briefs
- Casale, M., Chanika, D., Drimie, S., Gillespie, S., Kadiyala, S., Msoma, P., Quinlan, T. and Ziervogel, G. (2008) Experiencing Vulnerability in Southern Africa: the interaction of multiple stressors. HIV, Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security: Findings from RENEWAL Research (2007-2008). Brief 6. IFPRI/RENEWAL and JLICA

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