Dr Anita Naginlal Parbhoo is the Chief Executive Officer at the iconic Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. She also holds the role of Chief Director in the Department of Health and Wellness, Western Cape Government.

Anita trained as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town and holds a Master of Public Health from the University of the Western Cape. She has been working to manage and improve services in Child Health at Red Cross Children’s Hospital since 2008. Using the experiences from her own leadership development journey, she hopes to inspire others working in global health. While being especially interested in child health, she is passionate about organisational culture, staff morale and finding innovative ways of working to promote synergy in the workplace while ensuring the highest quality patient care.