Ms Manya van Ryneveld
BSocSc Hons (UCT), MSc (Oxford)
PhD candidate/Researcher
E: mvanryneveld@uwc.ac.za
Manya joined the School of Public Health in 2019 as a researcher with the SAMRC Extramural Health Systems to Systems Research unit.
Her research interests are in Health Systems and Policy, policy reforms for National Health Insurance and the application of critical social theory in Public Health. She is currently a PhD candidate researching community health systems through the lens of care, social reproduction, informality, and grassroots self-organising during health emergencies.
Projects
In the news
What Is COVID-19 Teaching Us About Community Health Systems? A Reflection From a Rapid Community-Led Mutual Aid Response in Cape Town, South Africa
Staff inolved: *Manya van Ryneveld, Eleanor Whyle, Leanne Brady
Cape Town’s response to COVID-19 shows that another kind of society is possible
Staff inolved: Manya van Ryneveld, Eleanor Whyle, Leanne Brady
The power of people caring for those affected by Covid-19
Rather than large, sterile and clinical self-isolation centres, let’s imagine for a moment, that everyone who couldn’t self-isolate at home could be accommodated within their neighbourhoods — in an environment that was designed not to transmit Covid-19, while also being familiar, humanised and conducive to social and community bonds.