Health services and systems, rooted in human rights and social justice.
The purpose of the School is to support and train policy makers and implementers who are knowledgeable and skilled in the principles and practice of public health
Rethinking How We Address Gendered Workplace Violence in Primary Healthcare Settings: A Dialogue with Abi Badru
Convened by the Imarisha consortium and PSI, the dialogue explored how to address the gender dimensions of workplace violence in PHC settings
Hands-On Capacity Building to Empower a New Generation of Pharmacovigilance Experts
At the 5th Annual Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology in Africa, held in Accra, Ghana, from 20 – 22 April 2026, Dr Nicolas Praet delivered a podium presentation on the capacity-building activities of CEPSA.
Climate Change and Health – For Frontline Healthcare Workers
Practical -in Person short course
Application deadline: 8th May
CEPSA Newsletter – March 2026
The Centre of Excellence For Pharmacovigilance in Southern Africa (CEPSA) is pleased to share its second quarterly newsletter.
2025 Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice.
Please join the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape (SOPH, UWC), for our Annual lecture.
Partnerships and Co-Design Processes for Health and Gender Equality: Insights for Programme Implementers, Researchers and Funders
This session aims to illustrate the promises and pitfalls of working with a co-design approach in implementing a gender-transformative approach into adolescent and young people SRHR intervention. The perspectives of a grant manager, a programme implementer and a public health researcher are discussed in relation to participant’s own experiences.
Advancing knowledge for district health system strengthening: emerging themes from the South African Learning Alliance for the DHS (SALAD)
SALAD is a learning network that connects health services managers at district, provincial and national level with health policy and system researchers. SALAD will reflect on its progress since inception through four themes: M&E, COPC, resource allocation and community-led monitoring while eliciting the perspectives of the attendees using world café.
Toward an ethics of epistemic justice: Research on health disparities related to sexual orientation, gender identity in restrictive settings
The School of Public Health and Women’s and Gender Studies, UWC Jointly invite you to a seminar
Report of Activities 2019 – 2020
We have published reports of our activities every two years for about the past twenty years.
This year we are publishing it electronically for the first time, perhaps reflecting the rapidly accelerated replacement of print with on-line resources (although I don’t think I will change my preference for reading in print). But while the electronic format will make the report easily available around the world, easily readable on mobile phones and tablets, I am also aware that the ubiquitous presence of on-line meetings, digital resources and a world of information that can be tapped any time does not mean equitable access. When we surveyed our students and short course participants last year, we learned that while access has increased substantially, bandwidth, data access and data cost, remain substantial barriers
