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  1. Utilizing T1-weighted MRI intensity indices to evaluate in-vivo neurotoxicity in a South African cohort with environmental manganese exposure

    Article • Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, October 2025, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  2. Occupational noise-induced hearing loss: What is the contribution of personal noise exposures? A case study of mineworkers at a large-scale platinum mine in South Africa

    Article • Noise & Vibration Worldwide, June 2025, SAGE Publications

    Gill Nelson

  3. Health Risk Assessment of Nail Technicians in the Formal and Informal Sectors of Johannesburg, South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Gill Nelson

  4. The non-use of aluminum oxide for silicosis prophylaxis in South African mines

    Article • Occupational Health Southern Africa, March 2024, Mettamedia (Pty) Ltd

    Gill Nelson

  5. Exposure of formal and informal nail technicians to organic solvents found in nail products

    Article • Frontiers in Public Health, May 2023, Frontiers

    Gill Nelson

  6. Quantitative Self-Assessment of Exposure to Solvents among Formal and Informal Nail Technicians in Johannesburg, South Africa

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Gill Nelson

  7. Environmental manganese exposure and cognitive control in a South African population

    Article • NeuroToxicology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  8. Process evaluation of a pre-adolescent transdisciplinary health intervention for inter-generational outcomes

    Article • PLOS One, December 2021, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  9. Occupational Hearing Loss for Platinum Miners in South Africa: A Case Study of Data Sharing Practices and Ethical Challenges in the Mining Industry

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Gill Nelson

  10. Effectiveness of a pre-adolescent inter-generational intervention to address HIV and obesity in South Africa, using a pretest-posttest design

    Article • BMC Public Health, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gill Nelson

  11. Predicting standard threshold shifts for occupational hearing loss among miners at a large-scale platinum mine in South Africa

    Article • Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, October 2021, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Gill Nelson

  12. Physicochemical Properties of Indoor and Outdoor Particulate Matter 2.5 in Selected Residential Areas near a Ferromanganese Smelter

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Gill Nelson

  13. Depression and anxiety in a manganese-exposed community

    Article • NeuroToxicology, July 2021, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  14. A Rapid Motor Task-Based Screening Tool for Parkinsonism in Community-Based Studies

    Article • Frontiers in Neurology, May 2021, Frontiers

    Gill Nelson

  15. Severity of parkinsonism associated with environmental manganese exposure

    Article • Environmental Health, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gill Nelson

  16. Development of a pre-adolescent inter-generational intervention to address HIV and obesity using intervention mapping

    Article • Health Education Journal, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Gill Nelson

  17. Validation of Parkinson’s Disease-Related Questionnaires in South Africa

    Article • Parkinson s Disease, June 2020, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Gill Nelson

  18. Estimating miners at risk for occupational noise-induced hearing loss: A review of data from a South African platinum mine

    Article • South African Journal of Communication Disorders, March 2020, AOSIS Open Journals

    Gill Nelson

  19. Educators’ perceptions of organisational readiness for implementation of a pre-adolescent transdisciplinary school health intervention for inter-generational outcomes

    Article • PLOS One, January 2020, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  20. The association between caesarean section delivery and later life obesity in 21-24 year olds in an Urban South African birth cohort

    Article • PLOS One, November 2019, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  21. Manganese exposure, parkinsonian signs, and quality of life in South African mine workers

    Article • American Journal of Industrial Medicine, October 2019, Wiley

    Gill Nelson

  22. Socio-demographic contributors to health and safety of mine workers in South Africa

    Article • WORK A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation, September 2019, IOS Press

    Jodi Pelders, Gill Nelson

  23. Contributors to Fatigue of Mine Workers in the South African Gold and Platinum Sector

    Article • Safety and Health at Work, June 2019, Elsevier

    Jodi Pelders, Gill Nelson

  24. Contributors to fatigue at a platinum smelter in South Africa

    Article • Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, January 2019, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Jodi Pelders, Gill Nelson

  25. Cost and effectiveness of prescribing emollient therapy for atopic eczema in UK primary care in children and adults: a large retrospective analysis of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink

    Article • BMC Dermatology, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gill Nelson

  26. Maternal mortality in Ifakara Health and Demographic Surveillance System: Spatial patterns, trends and risk factors, 2006 – 2010

    Article • PLOS One, October 2018, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  27. Living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa

    Article • Development Southern Africa, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Gill Nelson, Jodi Pelders

  28. The association between social capital and HIV treatment outcomes in South Africa

    Article • PLOS One, November 2017, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  29. P205 Measuring the health effects of manganese smelter emissions in south africa: a pilot study

    Article • September 2016, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  30. 38 years of autopsy findings in South African mine workers

    Article • American Journal of Industrial Medicine, February 2016, Wiley

    Zodwa Ndl, Gill Nelson

  31. Epidemiology of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma in Africa

    Article • February 2016, Bentham Science Publishers

    Gill Nelson

  32. Mesothelioma in South African miners 1975-2013

    Article • September 2015, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Gill Nelson

  33. Ex vivo magnetic resonance imaging in South African manganese mine workers

    Article • NeuroToxicology, July 2015, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  34. Risk Factors and Birth Outcomes of Anaemia in Early Pregnancy in a Nulliparous Cohort

    Article • PLOS One, April 2015, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  35. Quantitative neuropathology associated with chronic manganese exposure in South African mine workers

    Article • NeuroToxicology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  36. The Contribution of Emotional Partners to Sexual Risk Taking and Violence among Female Sex Workers in Mombasa, Kenya: A Cohort Study

    Article • PLOS One, August 2013, PLOS

    Gill Nelson

  37. Silicosis at autopsy in platinum mine workers

    Article • Occupational Medicine, February 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Gill Nelson

  38. Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining industry

    Article • Global Health Action, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Gill Nelson

  39. Research capacity development in South African manganese mines to bridge exposure and neuropathologic outcomes

    Article • NeuroToxicology, August 2012, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  40. CHAPTER 4. Parkinson Disease

    Article • January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Gill Nelson

  41. The Risk of Asbestos Exposure in South African Diamond Mine Workers

    Article • The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Gill Nelson

  42. Trends in lung cancer mortality in South Africa: 1995-2006

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gill Nelson

  43. Trends in mesothelioma mortality rates in South Africa: 1995-2007

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, March 2011, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  44. The effect of HIV infection on time off work in a large cohort of gold miners with known dates of seroconversion

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, November 2010, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  45. High Rates of Recurrence in HIV‐Infected and HIV‐Uninfected Patients with Tuberculosis

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Gill Nelson

  46. Three Decades of Silicosis: Disease Trends at Autopsy in South African Gold Miners

    Article • Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2010, Environmental Health Perspectives

    Gill Nelson

  47. Oscillating migration and the epidemics of silicosis, tuberculosis, and HIV infection in South African gold miners

    Article • American Journal of Industrial Medicine, June 2009, Wiley

    Gill Nelson

  48. Health effects of amosite mining and milling in South Africa

    Article • Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  49. South African experience with asbestos related environmental mesothelioma: Is asbestos fiber type important?

    Article • Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Gill Nelson

  50. Effects of duration of HIV infection and secondary tuberculosis transmission on tuberculosis incidence in the South African gold mines

    Article • AIDS, September 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Gill Nelson

  51. Cause of death and presence of respiratory disease at autopsy in an HIV-1 seroconversion cohort of southern African gold miners

    Article • AIDS, November 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Gill Nelson

  52. South African platinum mine employees reduce smoking in 5 years

    Article • Tobacco Control, June 2007, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  53. Survival from HIV-1 seroconversion in Southern Africa: a retrospective cohort study in nearly 2000 gold-miners over 10 years of follow-up

    Article • AIDS, March 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Gill Nelson

  54. Rock Drills used in South African Mines: a Comparative Study of Noise and Vibration Levels

    Article • The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Gill Nelson

  55. Intrapulmonary lymph nodes in South African miners—an autopsy survey

    Article • American Journal of Industrial Medicine, January 2007, Wiley

    Gill Nelson

  56. Mechanistically Identified Suitable Biomarkers of Exposure, Effect, and Susceptibility for Silicosis and Coal-Worker'S Pneumoconiosis: A Comprehensive Review

    Article • Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part B, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Gill Nelson

  57. Effect of HIV on work-related injury rates in South African gold miners

    Article • AIDS, November 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Gill Nelson

  58. Risk of mesothelioma from exposure to crocidolite asbestos: a 1995 update of a South African mortality study

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, August 2000, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  59. Cor pulmonale and silicosis: a necropsy based case-control study.

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, June 1993, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  60. The relation between fibrosis of hilar lymph glands and the development of parenchymal silicosis.

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, April 1991, BMJ

    Gill Nelson

  61. Mesothelioma in South Africa, 1976–84: Incidence and Case Characteristics

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, January 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Gill Nelson

  62. Respiratory Questionnaires in Occupational Studies: Their Use in Multilingual Workforces on the Witwatersrand

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, January 1987, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Gill Nelson