Alastair van Heerden

Comparative cost analysis of community-based tuberculosis screening: Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) alone versus CAD with point-of-care C-reactive protein testing in South Africa and Lesotho

Community-based active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) is recommended in high-burden settings, yet evidence on implementation costs from prospective programmatic data remains limited. We estimated and compared the costs of two community-based ACF screening approaches: Co...

Harms associated with engaging with AI for mental health support: A scoping review protocol

Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used for mental health support, through both purpose-built products and general-purpose large language models (LLMs), at a pace far greater than evidence of their efficacy or safety. There is no consensus taxonomy of the pot...