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
Call for Applications 2023: Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health – Master of Public Health – PhD
Applications Close: PGD & MPH in Public Health – 30 September 2022. These flexible, modular Programmes use e-learning as their key learning and teaching medium, accompanied by a series of webinars throughout the course of the year.
Fragmented maternity protection in South Africa – PhD research coverage in the media
PhD candidate Catherine (Katie) Pereira-Kotze spoke to Tumelo on eNCA on Thursday 21 July 2022, about one of her PhD publications that maps out maternity protection policy in South Africa, that demonstrates the fragmentation in over 20 policy documents available.
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022
The Food Environment Research group (a collective from Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, School of Public Health and the DSI/NRF Center of Excellence in Food Security) at the University of the Western Cape under the leadership of Prof Rina Swart is seeking Post-doctoral Research Fellows to work on the PURE and gut-microbiome studies.
Collaborative project on gender transformative approaches to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa launched
The School of Public Health recently began work on two exciting aspects of a global research project focusing on gender transformative approaches to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa.
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis protocol development
This short course is targeted at a wide range of audiences, e.g. postgraduate students, researchers, health professionals and managers, and other decision-makers
Current Thinking and Practice in Health Promotion: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
A webinar Series hosted by Dr Anam Nyembezi from the 21st October till the 28th October
Participatory systems analysis tools for improved health systems performance.
A webinar Series hosted by Dr Martina Lembani from the 29th September till the 10th November
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
