Current Position

• Senior Lecturer - Division of Public Health
• Supervising research projects - PhDs and Master`s

 Book

Shangase, Phindile Zifikile, Daniela Gachago, and Eunice Ndeto Ivala, eds. Co-Teaching and Co-Research in Contexts of Inequality: Using Networked Learning to Connect Africa and the World. WILMINGTON, DE: VERNON PRESS, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-64889-578-4 https://vernonpress.com/book/1656

Book Chapters

Tidings P. Ndlovu and Zifikile Phindile Shangase. Chapter 6: Civil Society

Organisations & Sustainable Development: Some lessons from rural South Africa. In Aderemi, A., et al. (2018). Africa Rise Up!: Perspectives on African Renewal, Real African Publishers. ISBN No: 1928341403, 9781928341406. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Africa-Rise-Up-Perspectives-Africanebook/dp/B07CPLXRZN

 Journal Articles

• Shangase, P.Z., Shaw, B.S. and Shaw, I., 2025. Characteristics and smoking behaviors among patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa. BMC Public Health, 25(1), pp.1-7.

• Shangase, P.Z. and Shandu, N.M., 2024. Perspectives of Hospital Staff on Barriers to Smoking Cessation Interventions among Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in a South African Management Hospital. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(9), p.1137.

• Mdiniso, J. Shangase Z.P., Nkwanyana, S., Cele S., Mkhasibe, R., March 2022. Transition to emergency online learning in South Africa: reflection of historically black universities. African Journal of Development Studies (AJDS) Vol. 12, Number 1, March 2022. ISSN 2634-3630 E-ISSN 2634-3649.

• Shangase, Z.P. Tsoka-Gwegweni J.M., Okem A., 2018. Smoking prevalence among inpatients with drug resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In Tobacco Induced Diseases (Vol. 16, pp. 118-119). European Publishing.

• Shangase, Z.P., Tsoka-Gwegweni, J.M. and Egbe, C.O., 2017. Barriers to smoking cessation among drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in South Africa. Annals of global health, 83(3-4), pp.501-508.

• Shangase P & Egbe C, O. 2015. Barriers to Accessing HIV Services for Black African Communities in Cambridgeshire, the United Kingdom. Journal of Community Health,40:20–26.  

 Current Research Project

• Principal Investigator & Project Manager: Partnership project with Central University of Technology and King’s College London University: Capacity building for the use of implementation science in various typologies in low- and middle income countries (LMICs) for the prevention and/or management of the quadruple burden of disease. https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-archive-item/campus-news/2024/november/using-implementation-science-to-address-quadruple-burden-of-disease-in-sa

https://www.ufs.ac.za/templates/news-archive-item/campus-news/2025/april/improving-health-care-service-delivery-and-outcomes

https://www.youtube.com/live/-FuoSA01rKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1T4exXpNc&t=6937s

Previous Projects

2018 - 2020

• Principal Investigator: A `Blended learning research methods class’, the University Teaching & Learning Office (UTLO)  – University of KwaZulu-Natal. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IocUCxnXkaw&t=1s

2018 - 2020

• Principal Investigator: `A pilot virtual Classroom` - research partnerships between the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Botswa 

2013 - 2019

• Module Co-ordinator: Certificate Course in Community Based Work With Children And Youth. The course is delivered by supported open distance learning in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, Kenya and Mozambique. Developed by REPSSI, UNICEF and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (the African Centre for Childhood), there were 1,000 students on the course. 

• Smoking Cessation

• Social Determinants of Health

• Implementation Science

• Technology Enhanced Learning

• Learning Analytics