Dr Francois van Loggerenberg
Research Fellow
Email: f.vanloggerenberg@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: 02075406755 Ext: 2326
Profile
Dr van Loggerenberg, is a Charted Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Research Fellow in the Youth Resilience Unit. He was the manager of an NIHR-funded Global Health Group on developing psycho-social interventions in low- and middle-income countries. The Group explored three specific resource-oriented approaches: DIALOG+, Family involvement and Volunteer support, that were refined and adapted to the local context. He trained as a research psychologist in South Africa and has a PhD in Public Health Medicine from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating behavioural interventions to enhance adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Durban, South Africa. Since 1997 he has lectured in various capacities at the post-graduate level, mostly in Psychology, Criminology, and Statistics and Research Methods. He was in Oxford from 2012 to 2109, initially as Scientific Lead on the Global Health Network. In that position he was involved in methodology research, for example, supervising work on a project to assess the role of twitter, in the African Ebola outbreak. He was also co-investigator in a Stanford-Oxford Li Ka Shing foundation-funded study assessing the usefulness of machine data from point-of-care diagnostic machines in Africa. Subsequently he was a Trial Manager in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, on a trial to test an intervention to address perinatal depression in HIV positive mothers in rural South Africa. He is a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford. At Queen Mary he was most recently Principal Investigator on a study (2022-2023) to adapt and test the DIALOG+ intervention in school children in Colombia, post-conflict and in the light of the challenges of COVID-19. He currently works on a large cohort of primary school children in east London looking at better understanding the development of emotional resilience.