Contact

All Stories

  1. Two decades of tracking femicide in South Africa: An analysis of four national surveys from 1999 to 2020/2021

    Article • Global Public Health, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  2. Association between alcohol use and femicide in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, July 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  3. A transdisciplinary integrated approach to improve identification outcomes for decomposed decedents in medicolegal death investigations

    Article • Forensic Science International Synergy, June 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  4. A multicentre study comparing post-mortem SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing in Cape Town mortuaries

    Article • Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 2025, AOSIS Open Journals

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  5. Ethical considerations in the routine identification of human remains in forensic mortuaries

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, April 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  6. South Africa’s male homicide epidemic: Who is killing men and why do we ignore the victims?

    Article • South African Journal of Science, March 2025, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  7. Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study

    Article • Global Health Action, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  8. 387 Who is killing South African men? A retrospective descriptive study of forensic and police investigations into male homicide

    Article • August 2024, BMJ

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  9. Injury mortality in South Africa: a 2009 and 2017 comparison to track progress to meeting sustainable development goal targets

    Article • Global Health Action, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  10. Child abuse and neglect-related murders in South Africa: a comparison of two national surveys in 2009 and 2017

    Article • The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, August 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  11. Paramedic educational interventions for out-of-hospital domestic and intimate partner violence cases: A scoping review

    Article • Paramedicine, July 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  12. Death by electrocution: A retrospective analysis of three medico-legal mortuaries in the eThekwini district of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa from 2006 to 2016

    Article • Burns Open, July 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  13. A study protocol to characterise pathophysiological and molecular markers of rheumatic heart disease and degenerative aortic stenosis using multiparametric cardiovascular imaging and multiomics techniques

    Article • PLOS One, May 2024, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  14. Who is killing South African men? A retrospective descriptive study of forensic and police investigations into male homicide

    Article • BMJ Global Health, April 2024, BMJ

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  15. Femicide, intimate partner femicide, and non-intimate partner femicide in South Africa: An analysis of 3 national surveys, 1999–2017

    Article • PLoS Medicine, January 2024, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  16. South Africa’s male homicide epidemic hiding in plain sight

    Article • PLOS Global Public Health, November 2023, PLOS

    Richard Matzopoulos, Morna Cornell, Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  17. “The Nobodies”: unidentified dead bodies—a global health crisis requiring urgent attention

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, November 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  18. Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?

    Article • South African Medical Journal, September 2023, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  19. Clinical exome sequencing elucidates underlying cause of death in sudden unexpected death of infants: two case reports

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  20. The shared genetic architecture of suicidal behaviour and psychiatric disorders: A genomic structural equation modelling study

    Article • Frontiers in Genetics, March 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  21. Understanding the burden of unidentified bodies: a systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  22. South Africa’s male homicide epidemic hiding in plain sight: exploring sex differences and patterns in homicide risk in a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations

    Article • February 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  23. Healthcare Utilization 12 Months Prior to Fatal and Non-fatal Suicidal Behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa

    Article • Archives of Suicide Research, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin, Prof. Jason Bantjes

  24. Medico-Legal Death Investigation Systems – South Africa

    Article • Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine Science & Law, September 2022, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  25. Postmortem computed tomography plus forensic autopsy for determining the cause of death in child fatalities

    Article • Pediatric Radiology, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  26. Local recommendations for death scene investigation of sudden unexpected death in infants (SUDI) based on prospective observations

    Article • South African Medical Journal, April 2021, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  27. Massively Parallel Sequencing of 43 Arrhythmia Genes in a Selected SUDI Cohort from Cape Town

    Article • Journal of Pediatric Genetics, April 2021, Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation with Applications

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  28. Assessment of candidate variants causative of inborn metabolic diseases in SUDI cases in South Africa, and a case report

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  29. Bodies without names: A retrospective review of unidentified decedents at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010 - 2017

    Article • South African Medical Journal, February 2020, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  30. A retrospective study of death scene investigation practices for sudden unexpected death of infants (SUDI) in Cape Town, South Africa

    Article • Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  31. Massively parallel sequencing in sudden unexpected death in infants: A case report in South Africa

    Article • Forensic Science International Genetics Supplement Series, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  32. Homicide pattern among adolescents: A national epidemiological study of child homicide in South Africa

    Article • PLOS One, August 2019, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  33. Global trends in the extent of death scene investigation performed for sudden and unexpected death of infant (SUDI) cases: A systematic review

    Article • Forensic Science International, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  34. Evaluation of DNA profiles obtained from deceased individuals at Salt River Mortuary (South Africa)

    Article • Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  35. Investigation into abandoned neonates admitted to Salt River Forensic Pathology Mortuary, Cape Town

    Article • Forensic Science International, November 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  36. A systematic review exploring the relationship between infection and sudden unexpected death between 2000 and 2016: A forensic perspective

    Article • Forensic Science International, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  37. A retrospective time trend study of firearm and non-firearm homicide in Cape Town from 1994 to 2013

    Article • South African Medical Journal, February 2018, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  38. Ethical considerations in forensic genetics research on tissue samples collected post-mortem in Cape Town, South Africa

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  39. Sexual homicides in South Africa: A national cross-sectional epidemiological study of adult women and children

    Article • PLOS One, October 2017, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  40. Developing an understanding of fatal child abuse and neglect: Results from the South African child death review pilot study

    Article • South African Medical Journal, December 2016, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  41. Child deaths in South Africa: Lessons from the child death review pilot

    Article • South African Medical Journal, August 2016, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  42. The South African child death review pilot: A multiagency approach to strengthen healthcare and protection for children

    Article • South African Medical Journal, August 2016, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  43. Gender Differences in Homicide of Neonates, Infants, and Children under 5 y in South Africa: Results from the Cross-Sectional 2009 National Child Homicide Study

    Article • PLoS Medicine, April 2016, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  44. Linking mortuary data improves vital statistics on cause of death of children under five years in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, November 2015, Wiley

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  45. Injury-related mortality in South Africa: a retrospective descriptive study of postmortem investigations

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, March 2015, WHO Press

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  46. The epidemiology of child homicides in South Africa

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, May 2013, WHO Press

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  47. Intimate Partner Femicide in South Africa in 1999 and 2009

    Article • PLoS Medicine, April 2013, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  48. Underreporting child abuse deaths: Experiences from a national study on child homicide

    Article • South African Medical Journal, February 2013, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  49. INTIMATE FEMICIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA: COMPARING TWO STUDIES 10 YEARS APART

    Article • Injury Prevention, October 2012, BMJ

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  50. Forensic Medicine in South Africa: Associations between Medical Practice and Legal Case Progression and Outcomes in Female Murders

    Article • PLOS One, December 2011, PLOS

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  51. Preventing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Among Sexual Assault Survivors in Cape Town, South Africa: An Observational Study

    Article • AIDS and Behavior, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  52. The Provincial Injury Mortality Surveillance System (PIMSS): a surveillance tool for the Western Cape

    Article • Injury Prevention, September 2010, BMJ

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  53. Mortality of Women From Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: A National Epidemiological Study

    Article • Violence and Victims, August 2009, Springer Publishing Company

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  54. Injury Patterns of Female Homicide Victims in South Africa

    Article • Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, July 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  55. Alcohol Use and Its Role in Female Homicides in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, May 2009, Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  56. Perpetration of violence against intimate partners: health care implications from global data

    Article • Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2008, Canadian Medical Association (CMA)

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  57. Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa: a cross-sectional study

    Article • Bulletin of the World Health Organization, July 2008, WHO Press

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  58. The epidemiology and the pathology of suspected rape homicide in South Africa

    Article • Forensic Science International, July 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  59. Rape and HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis: Addressing the Dual Epidemics in South Africa

    Article • Reproductive Health Matters, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  60. Forensic evidence collection for sexual assault: a South African perspective

    Article • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, April 2002, Wiley

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  61. The virgin cleansing myth: cases of child rape are not exotic

    Article • The Lancet, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin

  62. Rape Surveillance through District Surgeon Offices in Johannesburg, 1996–1998: Findings, Evaluation and Prevention Implications

    Article • South African Journal of Psychology, June 2000, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lorna Jean Martin