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Moganavelli Reddy

Dr.

Moganavelli Reddy

Lecturer

Telephone
031-260-8270

Email
reddym@ukzn.ac.za

BIOSKETCH
Mogie Reddy worked part-time as an academic while she was employed at the Department of Health as a Dental Therapist. She joined UKZN as a full-time lecturer in February 2010. She is involved with both undergraduate teaching and post graduate supervision of Honours, Masters and PhD students. She has a keen interest in community outreach programs with a special interest in school oral health programs. Degrees held: 
  • PhD in Health Sciences (UKZN)
  • Masters in Public Health (UWC)
  • DNTH (Honours) (MEDUNSA)
  • DNTH (UDW)
 Experience:
  • Teaching and learning – Cariology, Prevention, Periodontology, Radiography, Oral Pathology, Restorative Dentistry and Dental Materials, Integrated Dentistry, Clinical Pharmacology and Diagnostics
  • Pre-clinical teaching and supervision
  • Program and curriculum development
  • Postgraduate supervision
 Teaching Interests:
  • Radiography
  • Oral Pathology
  • Integrated Dentistry
  • Clinical Pharmacology and Diagnostics
Research Interests
  • Tuberculosis – head and neck
  • Oral Health Promotion and prevention at schools
  • Health Promoting Schools
  • Diet and Oral Health
  • Access to Public Health Services
  • Antibiotic Stewardship
  • Traditional Medicine in oral health
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  • Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of dental professionals, on patients seeking oral health care from traditional healers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. S.Dlamini; I Moodley; M Reddy; 2023 South African Dental Journal 78(5); 244-250
  • Challenges implementing oral health promotion at schools: Perspectives of Teachers and Health Managers. M. Reddy; 2019 Early Childhood Education Journal 47(2) 207-216
  • The promotion of oral health in Health Promoting Schools in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. M. Reddy; S. Singh; 2017 South African Journal of Child Health 11(1); 16-20 
  • Dental caries status in six-year-old children at Health Promoting Schools in Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa. M. Reddy; S. Singh; 2015 South African Dental Journal 70(9); 396-401
  • Viability in delivering oral health promotion activities within the health promoting schools initiative in KwaZulu-Natal. M. Reddy; S. Singh; 2015 South African Journal of Child Health 9(3); 93-97
  • A review of the epidemiology and an update of infection control recommendations for Tuberculosis. S. Naidoo; M. Reddy; 2010 South African Dental Journal 65(10); 462-469
  • Tuberculosis in the head and neck: experience in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Reddy; 2009; UWC
  • ResearchGate
  • Orcid