Pharmaceutical Policy & Management – Online Module 2025This online module may be taken as an individual stand-alone module or as part of the Master of Public Health. FIND OUT MOREProf Helen Schneider awarded the Research Capacity Development and Transformation AwardThe University of the Western Cape (UWC) Professor Helen Schneider and healthcare legend Florence Nightingale share a profound dedication to transforming healthcare systems and improving public health.FIND OUT MOREProf Kalpana Balakrishnan -ASSAf Distinguished Visiting Scholar (DVS) 2024/25The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in partnership with the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) cordially invite you to two lectures FIND OUT MOREConsortium Project Manager - VacancyThe School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape (UWC-SOPH) is seeking to appoint a Consortium Project Manager (on a full-time basis) to start as soon as possible. FIND OUT MORE
This module was created to help prepare individuals in the fields of health and welfare for the challenging role of manager particularly at programme, district and sub-district levels.
This module was created to help prepare individuals in the fields of health and welfare to gain an understanding of the concepts and practice of Health Promotion.
The main purpose of this module is to introduce you to the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Approach: its origins, rationale, philosophy, theory, concepts and practices.
The module aims to introduce you to a wide range of Public Health issues which will then be developed in more detail across the other five modules of this programme.
COVID-19 is providing challenges for us all! Pharmacy, Clinical, Laboratory and Public health professionals have been involved in maintaining existing health services, including access to quality pharmaceuticals during the COVID crisis.
This year marks 20 years since activists and comrades across the world joined us in the first People’s Health Assembly in Bangladesh in 2000 and the PHM journey began.