Dr Catherine O. Egbe

Research Psychologist, Public Health Scientist, Specialist in Tobacco Control

Dr Catherine O. Egbe

Research Psychologist, Public Health Scientist, Specialist in Tobacco Control

Resources

  1. Kalan M.E., Mejia, R., Egbe, C.O., Chopra, M., Bteddini, D., Jebai, R., Osibogun, O., Wilkinson, A.V., Salloum, R.G. (in press). E-cigarette Use in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Opportunity or Challenge for Global Tobacco Control.  The Lancet, Global Health. Manuscript reference number: LANGLH-D-23-01284

  2. Egbe CO., Gwambe S., Londani, M., Erinoso, O., & Ayo-Yusuf AO., (2023). Trends in the use and dual use of manufactured combustible cigarettes, other tobacco products and electronic cigarettes: Results from South African Social Attitudes Surveys during 2007 to 2018. Tobacco Induced Diseases

  3. Lee, K., Egbe, CO, Bianco, E., & Arora, M. (2023).  The 20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: hard won progress amid evolving challenges. THE LANCET-D-23-02743. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01080-2 

  4. Egbe, CO, Ngobese SP, Barca H, & Crosbie E. (2022). “Are they trying to control us people”? News media coverage of South African COVID-19 lockdown tobacco ban.  PLoS ONE 17(12): e0278888. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278888

  5. Erinoso, O., Osibogun, O., Egbe C.O., Oyapero, A., Wright, O., Osibogun, A. (2022). Electronic nicotine delivery systems in Nigeria: Flavours, Prices and Risk messaging. Tobacco Control. Manuscript no: tobaccocontrol-2022-057578
  6. Egbe, C.O. Kulik, MC, Londani, M., Ngobese, S.P. & Ayo-Yusuf, O.A. (2022). A cross sectional investigation of softening indicators among South African smokers: Results from the South African Social Attitudes Survey between 2007 and 2018, Preventative Medicine Reports, Vol. 27, 101785, doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101785  
  7. Ling, P, Minji, K, Egbe CO, Patanavanich, R, de Pinho, M, Hendlin, Yogi. (2022) Moving Targets: How Novel Tobacco Products and Marketing create Policy Challenges” Tobacco Control. Manuscript ID: tobaccocontrol-2021-056552
  8. Egbe C.O., Magati, P., Wanyonyi, E., Sessou, L., Owusu-Dabo, E., & Ayo-Yusuf O.A.  (2022). Landscape of tobacco control in Africa. Tobacco Control.  Manuscript ID tobaccocontrol-2021-056540
  9. Egbe C.O., Gwambe, S. & Ngobese, S.P. (2021). Fighting Tobacco in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the Clutches of the Tobacco Industry. MMS Bulletin No. 160. Medicus Mundi Switzerland Online journal https://www.medicusmundi.ch/en/advocacy/publications/mms-bulletin/fighting-tobacco-in-lmic/advocacy/fighting-tobacco-in-sub-saharan-africa 
  10. Zatoński, M., Egbe, C.O., Robertson, L., & Gilmore, A.B. (2021). Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa.  Tobacco Control Published Online First: 25 November 2021.  https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056675
  11. Agaku, I, Egbe, C.O., Ayo-Yusuf, O.A. (2021). E-cigarette Advertising exposure among South African adults in 2017: Findings from a nationally representative Cross-sectional Survey. BMJ Open. Vol 11:e048462.  https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048462
  12. Crosbie, E., Defrank, V., Egbe, C.O., Ayo-Yusuf, O., & Bialous, S. (2021). Tobacco supply and demand strategies used in African countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 99(7), 539–540. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.266932
  13. Agaku I, Egbe C.O., Ayo-Yusuf O.A. (2021). Circumvention of COVID-19-related restrictions on tobacco sales by the e-cigarette industry in South Africa and comparative analyses of e-cigarette vs cigarette volume sales during 2018-2020. Preventive Medicine. 148: 106526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106526
  14. Agaku I, Egbe C.O., Ayo-Yusuf O.A. (2021). Potential revenue from taxing e-cigarettes and comparison of the costs from daily e-cigarette use vs. cigarette smoking among South African adults. Tobacco Induced Diseases. 19: 07.  https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/131861
  15. Agaku, I., Egbe C.O., & Ayo-Yusuf, O.A. (2021). Associations between electronic cigarette use and quitting behaviors among South African adult smokers. Tobacco Control.  doi:  https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056102. Epub ahead of print.
  16. Agaku, I., Egbe C.O., & Ayo-Yusuf, O.A. (2021). Geospatial spread of e-cigarette vape shops in South Africa and the relationship with product experimentation and use among adults. Health and Place. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102507
  17. Agaku I, Egbe C, Ayo-Yusuf O. (2021). Utilisation of smoking cessation aids among South African adult smokers: findings from a national survey of 18 208 South African adults. Family Medicine and Community Health, 9, e000637.  https://doi.org/10.1136/fmch-2020-000637
  18. Clancy, L., Gallus, S., Leung, J., & Egbe, C. O. (2020). Tobacco and COVID-19: Understanding the science and policy implications. Tobacco induced diseases, 18, 105. https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/131035
  19. Londani, M., Morojele, N., Egbe, C.O., Nel, E., Petersen Williams, P., Harker, N., & Parry, C. (2020). On- and off-licensed premises drinking behaviour among adults in the city of Tshwane, South Africa: An analysis of data from the International Alcohol Control study. Drug and Alcohol Review.  https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13223
  20. Ngobese, S. P., Egbe, C.O., Londani M., & Ayo-Yusuf, O. A. (2020).  Non-smoker’s exposure to second-hand smoke in South Africa: results from the 2017 South African Social Attitude Survey.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 8112;  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218112
  21. Hlomani-Nyawasha, T., Meyer-Weitz, A., & Egbe C. O. (2020).  Factors influencing alcohol use among female in-school adolescents in the Western Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246320946298  journals.sagepub.com/home/sap
  22. Egbe C. O. & Ngobese S. P. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown and tobacco product ban in South Africa. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 18(May), 39. https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/120938
  23. Egbe, C. O., London, L., Kalideen, S., Delobelle, P., & Datay, I. (2020). The need to regulate electronic cigarettes amidst health concerns: Let’s follow the evidence. South African Medical Journal, 110(3), 178-179.  https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v110i3.14568
  24. Egbe, C. O., Londani, M., Parry, C. D., Myers, B., Shuper, P. A., Nkosi, S., & Morojele, N. K. (2019). Tobacco use and nicotine dependence among people living with HIV who drink heavily in South Africa: a cross-sectional baseline study. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1684.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-8047-8
  25. Londani, M., Morojele, N. K., Egbe, C. O., Nel, E., & Parry, C. D. (2019). Police involvement due to alcohol use in South Africa: results from the international alcohol control study. Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology, 32(1), 141-153.  https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-19bd2f05c6
  26. Abraham, E. A., Egbe, C. O., & Ayo-Yusuf, O. A. (2019) News media coverage of shisha in Nigeria from 2014 to 2018. Tob. Induc. Dis. 2019;17(April):33. https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/106139
  27. Egbe C. O. Parry, C.D.H., & Myers B. (2018). Electronic cigarettes: the solution or yet another phase of the tobacco epidemic? South African Journal of Psychology.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246318794828
  28. Egbe, C. O., Bialous, S. A., & Glantz S. (2018). Role of stakeholders in Nigeria’s tobacco control journey after the FCTC: lessons for tobacco control advocacy in low-income and middle-income countries.  Tob Control Epub ahead of print 25 Jul 2018.   https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054344
  29. Egbe, C. O., Bialous, S. A., & Glantz S. (2018). FCTC Implementation in Nigeria: Lessons for Low and Middle-Income Countries. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 1–9.  https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty069
  30. Egbe, C. O., Egbochuku, E.O., Meyer-Weitz, A., & Petersen, I. (2017). A qualitative exploration of the theory of triadic influence in a Nigerian setting: the case of cigarette smoking. Psychological Studies, 62(3), 314-325.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-017-0419-5
  31. Shangase, Z. P., Tsoka-Gwegweni, J. M., & Egbe, C. O. (2017). Barriers to smoking cessation for drug resistant tuberculosis patients in South Africa. Annals of Global Health. 83(3), 501-508. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2017.05.007
  32. Egbe, C. O., Dakum, P., Ekong, E., Kohrt, Minto, J & Ticao, C. (2017).  Prevalence and factors associated with depression, suicidality and alcohol use disorder among people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. BMC Public Health 17:542.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4467-5
  33. Petersen, I., Marais, D, Abdulmalik J., Ahuja, S., Alem, A, Chisholm, D, Egbe, C., Gureje, O., Hanlon, C., Lund, C., Shidhaye, R. (2017). Strengthening mental health system governance in six low-and middle-income countries in Africa and South Asia: challenges, needs and potential strategies. Health Policy and Planning.  https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czx014
  34. Egbe, C.O., Bialous, S. A., & Glantz S. (2017). Avoiding “a massive spin-off effect in West Africa and beyond”: The tobacco industry’s role in stymieing tobacco control in Nigeria. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 1-11 https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntx037
  35. Egbe, C.O., Egbochuku, E.O., Petersen, I., & Meyer-Weitz, A. (2016).  Cigarette smoking among Southern Nigerian youth and what geopolitical zones got to do with it. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 11:3, 251-262.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2016.1192710
  36. Petersen, I, Evans-Lacko, S, Semrau, M, Barry, MM, Chisholm, D, Gronholm P, Egbe, C. O., Thornicroft, G. (2016) Promotion, prevention and protection: interventions at the population- and community-levels for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10:30.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0060-z
  37. Patel, V., Chisholm, D., Parikh, R., Charlson, F. J., Degenhardt, L., Dua, T., … & Lund, C. and the DCP 3 group (2016). Addressing the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders: key messages from Disease Control Priorities. The Lancet, 387(10028), 1672-1685.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00390-6
  38. Egbe, C. O., Petersen, I. & Meyer-Weitz, A. (2016). Knowledge of the negative effects of cigarette smoking on health and well-being among Southern Nigerian youth. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 6(3), 184-190.
  39. Egbe, C. O. (2015). Experiences and effects of psychiatric stigma: Monologues of the stigmatizers and the stigmatized in an African setting. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10: 27954 – http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v10.27954.
  40. Brooke-Sumner, C., Petersen, I., Asher, L., Mall, S., & Egbe, C. O., & Lund, C.   (2015). Systematic Review of Feasibility and Acceptability of Psychosocial Interventions for Schizophrenia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. BMC Psychiatry, 15(19). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0400-6
  41. Shangase, P., & Egbe, C. O. (2015). Barriers to accessing HIV services for black African communities in Cambridgeshire, the United Kingdom. Journal of Community Health, vol 40(1), pp 20-26.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-014-9889-8
  42. Egbe, C. O., Petersen, I. & Meyer-Weitz, A., & Oppong Asante K. (2014). An exploratory study of the socio-cultural risk influences for cigarette smoking in Southern Nigerian youth. BMC Public Health 14:1204.  https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1204
  43. Egbe, C. O., Petersen, I. & Meyer-Weitz, A. (2014). Addressing a threat to the healthfulness of tomorrow’s generation: the case of cigarette smoking in Nigeria. Qualitative Research in Education, 3(3) 273-294.  https://doi.org/10.4471/qre.2014.48
  44. Egbe, C. O., Meyer-Weitz A., Oppong Asante K., & Petersen, I. (2014). “A woman is not supposed to smoke”: Exploring gendered stereotypes in smoking patterns in a Nigerian Setting. Journal of Psychology, 5 (1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/09764224.2014.11885500
  45. Egbe, C. O., Brooke-Sumner, C., Kathree, T., Selohilwe, O., Thornicroft, G., & Petersen, I. (2014).  Psychiatric stigma and discrimination in South Africa: perspectives from key stakeholders. BMC Psychiatry, 14:191.   https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-14-191.
  46. Petersen, I., Fairall, L., Egbe, C. O., & Arvin Bhana (2014). Optimizing lay counsellor services for chronic care in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review. Patient Education and Counselling, 95; 201-210. Doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.02.001.
  47. Egbe, C. O., Petersen, I. & Meyer-Weitz, A. (2013). Community participation in tobacco control in a Nigerian setting. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 23(2), 311-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2013.10820628   
  48. Egbe, C. O. (2013). Descriptive poems on a qualitative research with young smokers in Southern Nigeria. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(5), pp 353-354.  doi:10.1177/1077800413479560

 

  1. Petersen, I., Evans-Lacko, S., Semrau, M., Barry, M., Chisholm, D., Gronholm, P., Egbe, C. O., & Thornicroft, G. (2016).  Population and community platform interventions. In book: Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4): Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders, pp. 183-200. DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0426-7_ch10. Washington DC, World Bank Group

  2. Egbe, C. O., (Second Ed.) (2015). A Handbook of Guidance and Counselling for Secondary School Students. Benin, Mindex Publishing Co. Ltd. (ISBN 978-978-8408-02-4)

  3. Egbe, C. O. (2011). Counselling approach to handling students’ challenges in secondary schools in Ofoegbu C. I and Omokaro B. (Eds). Keys to Studying & Achieving Success in Examinations for Junior Secondary School (pp 33-56). Benin City, Nigeria, Mindex Publishers. (ISBN 978-978-8408-78-9)

  4. Egbe, C. O. (2011). Counselling approach to handling students’ challenges in secondary schools; in Ofoegbu C. I and Omokaro B. (Eds). Keys to Studying & Achieving Success in Examinations for Senior Secondary School (pp 32-54). Benin City, Nigeria, Mindex Publishers. (ISBN 978-978-8408-81-9)

  5. Egbe, C. O., (2010). HIV information delivery and decision-making skills – Effective means of fostering awareness towards behavioural intentions of HIV/AIDS among Nigerian adolescents. Germany, Lambert Publishing Company. (ISBN 978-3-8433-8403-2)

  6. Egbe, C. O. (2011). How to study and pass Biology, in Ofoegbu C. I and Omokaro B. (Eds). Keys to Studying & Achieving Success in Examinations for Senior Secondary School (pp. 183-192). Benin City, Nigeria, Mindex Publishers. (ISBN 978-978-8408-81-9)

  7. Egbe C. O. & Egbochuku E. O. (2008). Social development; in Egbochuku E. O. & Aluede O. O. (Eds.). The Basics of Developmental Psychology (pp. 101 – 119). Benin City, Nigeria, Ambik Press Ltd. (ISBN 978-978-8400-00-4)

  • March 2022: Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Conference 
  • Poster presentations: News media coverage of COVID-19 lockdown tobacco sales ban in South Africa
  • Cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence among male offenders at correctional services on Tshwane, South Africa 
  • October 2021: First African conference on Tobacco and Development
    Oral presentation: Socio-behavioural construct of tobacco use

  • October 2021: World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2021 Leadership Summit (Virtual).
    Oral presentation: Challenges and opportunities for Tobacco Endgame in Africa: Perspective from South Africa.

  • February 2021: Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Conference (Virtual)
    Posters presented:
    a Intention to quit using tobacco among school-going adolescents in South Africa: results from global youth tobacco surveys over a 12-year period (C. O. Egbe, M. Londani1, O. A. Ayo-Yusuf)
    b Cigarette smoking among a household sample of alcohol drinkers in South Africa: results from South African IAC study (M. Londani, C. Parry, N. Morojele, N. Harker, P. Petersen Williams, C. Egbe)

  • September 2020: World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2021 Leadership Summit Webinar series.
    1st Webinar: Tobacco and Covid-19: understanding the science and policy implications.
    Oral presentation: Tobacco control: Policies and opportunities during COVID-19

  • March 2020: Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research Conference – New Orleans
    Posters presented:
    a. Tobacco and nicotine products use and dual use in South Africa: results from the South African Social Attitude Survey 2007 to 2018 (C. O. Egbe, M. Londani1, O. A. Ayo-Yusuf)
    b. Non-smoker’s exposure to second-hand smoke in South Africa- results from the 2017 South African social attitude survey (P. S. Ngobese, C. O. Egbe, M. Londani1, O. A. Ayo-Yusuf)
    c. Are South African Smokers Softening or Hardening? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the South African Social Attitudes Survey between 2007 and 2018 (M.C. Kulik, O. A. Ayo-Yusuf, & C.O. Egbe)

  • February 2019: Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Conference – San Francisco
    Posters presented:
    a. Cigarette smoking among people living with HIV in South Africa
    b. Health, law and Industry: Big tobacco and the battle to make South Africa tobacco free

  • March 2018: 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health – Cape Town, South Africa
    Poster presented: Upgrade needed: South Africa’s Tobacco Control Policy and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
    Paper presented: Tobacco Industry’s response to impact of World Conference on Tobacco or Health in LMICs – A case of Nigeria presented at the Symposium titled, Whither Tobacco Control in Africa? Story of the Prey and the Predator.

  • April 2017: 8th Annual Consortium of Universities in Global Health (CUGH) Conference – Washington DC, USA
    Poster presented: “Avoiding a massive spin-off effect in West Africa and beyond”: The tobacco industry’s role in stymieing tobacco control in Nigeria

  • April 2016: 7th Annual Consortium of Universities in Global Health (CUGH) Conference– San Francisco, USA.
    Poster presented: Intrapersonal, interpersonal and environmental risk influences for smoking among the youth of Southern Nigeria

  • December, 2014: 3rd International Conference on Humanity, Culture and Society – Las Vegas, USA.
    Paper presented: Knowledge of the negative effects of cigarette smoking on health and well-being among Southern Nigerian youth

  • November, 2012: The 8th Joanna Briggs International Colloquium– Chiang Mai, Thailand – “Channelling the Rivers of Knowledge to Improve Global Policy and Practice.”
    Paper presented: Tobacco control policy and the tobacco question in Nigeria: Aligning policy formulation to deal with current realities.
  • 2015 -2017: Tobacco industry interference and FCTC implementation in Africa: Cases studies of Nigeria and South Africa. (Principal Investigator)

  • 2014-2016: The prevalence of depression, alcohol use and suicidality Among HIV+ Population in Nigeria (Principal Investigator)

  • 2010 – 2012: Risk influences for smoking among the youth in southern Nigeria (a mixed methods study) (PhD research project)

  • 2008: Information and decision-making skills as means of fostering awareness on behavioural intentions towards HIV/AIDS among Nigerian adolescents (a quasi-experimental Study) (Masters research project)

  • 1998: A comparative study of the Biology performance of private and public school students in Warri-South Local Government Area, Nigeria (a quantitative study) (Undergraduate research project)
 
  • Africa Tobacco Industry Monitoring (ATIM) Country Report: South Africa, 2019

  • SAMRC Policy Brief: A case for 100% smoke-free policy in South Africa: results from the 2017 South African social attitude survey

  • SAMRC Policy Brief: Tobacco use and nicotine dependence among people living with HIV who drink heavily in South Africa: A cross-sectional baseline study

  • PRIME Policy Brief 9: Psychiatric stigma and discrimination in South Africa: perspectives from key stakeholders

  • EMERALD Policy Brief: Interventions at the population and community-levels for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in LMICs

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