Safura Abdool Karim

Public Health Lawyer | Researcher

Publications


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Public Health Research


Participatory prioritisation of interventions to improve primary school food environments in Gauteng, South Africa


A. Erzse, S. Karim, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, P. Kruger, K. Hofman, L. Foley, T. Oni, S. Goldstein

BMC Public Health, 2023


Identifying priority interventions using the Behaviour Change Wheel to improve public primary school food environments in urban South Africa.


A. Erzse, S. Karim, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, P. Kruger, K. Hofman, L. Foley, T. Oni, S. Goldstein

Lancet Global Health, 2023


Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health


A. Gilmore, A. Fabbri, F. Baum, A. Bertscher, K. Bondy, Ha-Joon Chang, S. Demaio, A. Erzse, N. Freudenberg, S. Friel, K. Hofman, Paula Johns, S. Abdool Karim, J. Lacy-Nichols, Camila Maranha Paes de Carvalho, R. Marten, M. Mckee, M. Petticrew, Lindsay Robertson, V. Tangcharoensathien, A. Thow

The Lancet, 2023


The Potential for Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Transport Systems in Africa and the Caribbean: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Study


Anna Brugulat-Panés, L. Randall, T. H. de Sá, Megha Anil, H. kwan, L. Tatah, J. Woodcock, I. Hambleton, Ebele R. I. Mogo, L. Micklesfield, Caitlin Pley, I. Govia, S. S. Matina, Caroline Makokha, P. M. Dambisya, S. Karim, Georgina Pujol-Busquets, K. Okop, C. Mba, L. Ware, F. Assah, B. Nembulu, Gudani Mukoma, W. Lucas, N. Bennett, M. Tulloch-Reid, Alice Charity Awinja, Tanmay Anand, L. Foley

Sustainability, 2023


Determining food industry compliance to mandatory sodium limits: Successes and challenges from the South African experience.


Bianca van der Westhuizen, Tamryn Frank, S. Abdool Karim, E. C. Swart

Public Health Nutrition, 2023


Active travel and paratransit use in African cities: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography


L. Randall, Anna Brugulat-Panés, J. Woodcock, L. Ware, Caitlin Pley, S. Abdool Karim, L. Micklesfield, Gudani Mukoma, L. Tatah, P. M. Dambisya, S. S. Matina, I. Hambleton, G. Okello, F. Assah, Megha Anil, H. kwan, Alice Charity Awinja, Georgina Pujol-Busquets Guillén, L. Foley

Journal of Transport and Health, 2023


A systematic scoping review evaluating sugar-sweetened beverage taxation from a systems perspective.


Miriam Alvarado, Jean Adams, Tarra Penney, M. Murphy, Safura Abdool Karim, Nat Egan, N. T. Rogers, Lauren Carters-White, Martin White

Nature Food, 2023


A Mixed-Methods Participatory Intervention Design Process to Develop Intervention Options in Immediate Food and Built Environments to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living among Children and Adolescents in Cameroon and South Africa


A. Erzse, Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, P. Kruger, Feyisayo A. Wayas, E. Lambert, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Edwin Ngwa, S. Goldstein, L. Foley, K. Hofman, Stephanie Teguia, T. Oni, F. Assah, Maylene Shung-King, S. Abdool Karim

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022


Stakeholder arguments during the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in South Africa and their influence: a content analysis


S. Abdool Karim, P. Kruger, Natasha Mazonde, A. Erzse, S. Goldstein, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2022


Urban Informal Food Traders: A Rapid Qualitative Study of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures in South Africa


Teurai Rwafa-Ponela, S. Goldstein, P. Kruger, A. Erzse, S. Abdool Karim, K. Hofman

Sustainability, 2022


The data availability landscape in seven sub-Saharan African countries and its role in strengthening sugar-sweetened beverage taxation


A. Erzse, S. Abdool Karim, A. Thow, Gemma Ahaibwe, H. Amukugo, G. Asiki, Lebogang Gaogane, M. Mukanu, T. Ngoma, C. Ruhara, M. Wanjohi, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


Study design: policy landscape analysis for sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in seven sub-Saharan African countries


A. Thow, A. Erzse, G. Asiki, C. Ruhara, Gemma Ahaibwe, T. Ngoma, H. Amukugo, M. Wanjohi, M. Mukanu, Lebogang Gaogane, S. Abdool Karim, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


The political economy of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation: an analysis from seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa


A. Thow, S. Abdool Karim, M. Mukanu, Gemma Ahaibwe, M. Wanjohi, Lebogang Gaogane, H. Amukugo, C. Ruhara, T. Ngoma, G. Asiki, A. Erzse, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


Strengthening prevention of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases through sugar-sweetened beverages tax in Rwanda: a policy landscape analysis


C. Ruhara, S. Abdool Karim, A. Erzse, A. Thow, Sylvere Ntirampeba, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


Barriers to, and facilitators of, the adoption of a sugar sweetened beverage tax to prevent non-communicable diseases in Namibia: a policy landscape analysis


H. Amukugo, S. Abdool Karim, A. Thow, A. Erzse, P. Kruger, A. Karera, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography


L. Foley, Anna Brugulat-Panés, J. Woodcock, I. Govia, I. Hambleton, E. Turner-Moss, Ebele R. I. Mogo, Alice Charity Awinja, P. M. Dambisya, S. S. Matina, L. Micklesfield, S. Abdool Karim, L. Ware, M. Tulloch-Reid, F. Assah, Caitlin Pley, N. Bennett, Georgina Pujol-Busquets, K. Okop, Tanmay Anand, C. Mba, H. kwan, Gudani Mukoma, Megha Anil, L. Tatah, L. Randall

Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2021


Nutrition related non-communicable diseases and sugar sweetened beverage policies: a landscape analysis in Zambia


M. Mukanu, S. Abdool Karim, K. Hofman, A. Erzse, A. Thow

Global Health Action, 2021


Nutrition-related non-communicable disease and sugar-sweetened beverage policies: a landscape analysis in Kenya


M. Wanjohi, A. Thow, S. Abdool Karim, G. Asiki, A. Erzse, S. Mohamed, Hermann Pythagore Pierre Donfouet, Pamela A. Juma, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


An Analysis of the Adoption and Implementation of A Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in South Africa: A Multiple Streams Approach


P. Kruger, S. Abdool Karim, A. Tugendhaft, S. Goldstein

Health systems and reform, 2021


The legal feasibility of adopting a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in seven sub-Saharan African countries


S. Abdool Karim, A. Erzse, A. Thow, H. Amukugo, C. Ruhara, Gemma Ahaibwe, G. Asiki, M. Mukanu, T. Ngoma, M. Wanjohi, A. Karera, K. Hofman

Global Health Action, 2021


From 'playstation thumb' to 'cellphone thumb': the new epidemic in teenagers.


S. Karim

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2009


Playstation thumb--a new epidemic in children.


S. Karim

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2005


Scholarship (Peer-Reviewed)


COVID-19: The Challenge of Global Vaccine Inequity


S. Karim, Q. Karim, S. Karim

Social research, 2023


Some Legal Issues around the Adoption of Simplified Nutrition Labelling in South Africa: An Analysis of Draft Regulation R429


Safura Abdool Karim, Petronell Kruger, Karen Hofman

ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, vol. 23, Dullah Omar Institute, 2022, pp. 21--28


The Right to Free Commercial Speech in South Africa and its Tension with Public Health Interventions


P. Kruger, Mikateko Mafuyeka, S. Karim

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2022


Facilitating Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine through Global Health Law


L. Gostin, S. Karim, Benjamin Mason Meier

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2020


Criminalisation of transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A potential challenge to controlling the outbreak in South Africa.


S. Abdool Karim

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2020



Book Chapters


Double burden and double duty: Government action required to improve child nutrition


Karen Hofman, Agnes Erzse, Petronell Kruger, Safura Abdool Karim, Julian May

South African Child Gauge 2020, 2020, p. 135


Dissertations



Reports and Other


Why are sugary drinks still sold in schools?


A. Erzse, S. Abdool Karim, K. Hofman

2022


Research briefing


Agnes Erzse, Safura Abdool Karim

2022


Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights


S. Abdool Karim

South African journal on human rights, 2021

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