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Dr Ayanda Gina

Dr Ayanda Gina

Audiologist | Lecturer

TELEPHONE
031 260 8772

EMAIL
ginan@ukzn.ac.za

CAMPUS
University of KwaZulu- Natal

BIOSKETCH

Dr Ayanda Gina obtained her BSC (Audiology) qualification at the University of Cape Town. She further obtained a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Intervention (MECI), from the University of Pretoria. She completed her PhD with the University of KwaZulu Natal. Dr Gina’s clinical experience involves diagnosing and managing audiological pathologies in the adult and paediatric population. She has interests in early hearing detection and intervention and hearing rehabilitation technology. Dr Gina founded the Madadeni Hospital TB hearing monitoring programme in 2010. She was the co-ordinator of the new-born hearing screening programme in Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Gauteng province from 2013-2015. In 2015-2016, she was the programme manager for the Amajuba New-born hearing screening programme. The programme entailed the development of a universal new-born hearing screening programme in a semi-rural community in KwaZulu Natal. She is currently a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu Natal. She is also the co-ordinator of the KwaZulu-Natal Auditory

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
  • Paediatric Audiology
  • Hearing amplification and assistive devices
 
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  1. Rogers, C., de Wet, J., Gina, A., Louw, L., Makhoba, M. & Tacon, L. (2011).The translation of the vertigo symptom scale into Afrikaans: A pilot study. South African Journal of communication Disorders. 58. 6-12.
  2. Jayawardena, A., Waller, B., Edwards, B., Larsen-Reindorf, R., Anomah, J. E., Frimpong, B., Gina, A., Netterville, J., Saunders, J and Basura, G. J. (2019). Portable audiometric screening platforms used in low-resource setting: a review. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 133 (2), 74 -79. doi: 10.1017/S00222215118001925
  3. Gina, A., Bednarczuk, N. F., Jayawardena, A., Rea, P., Arshad, Q., & Saman, Y. (2020). Association between in utero HIV exposure and auditory brainstem response. Neurology, 95(20), 928–930. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010969
  4. Graham, C., Seeley, J., Gina, A., & Saman, Y. (2019). Mapping the content of mothers’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards universal newborn hearing screening for development of a KAP survey tool. PLoS ONE, 14(2), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210764
  5. Gina, A., Bednarczuk, N., Jayawardena, A., Rea, P., Arshad, Q. and Saman, Y. (2021). Universal newborn hearing screening in South Africa: a single -centre study. BMJ Paeddiatrics (in Press)