Wittesaele Camille

Camille Wittesaele is a Research Fellow in the Sexual Health including HIV Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM). She currently works with Bernadette Hensen on studies examining men’s access to HIV and non-communicable disease services in Zambia and Uganda.

Over the past decade, Camille’s work has focused on maternal, adolescent, and child health in Eastern and Southern Africa, with research interests spanning sexual and reproductive health (SRH), childhood vaccination, HIV, and health services access. Her work is motivated by a commitment to understanding how structural and social determinants shape health and by the belief that equitable access to care is fundamental to improving health outcomes.

Before joining ITM, Camille worked within a long-standing research collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Cape Town, contributing to the design, development, and implementation of several large observational cohort studies aimed at informing health and social policy for young people. She has extensive fieldwork experience in rural and urban settings in multiple South African provinces, supporting research delivery, programme evaluation, and stakeholder engagement. Camille recently completed her PhD at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where her research examined engagement in routine child health services among children of adolescent mothers in South Africa.