20 November 2019
The Declaration of Alma Ata and the movement it inspired was aspirational and ambitious.
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20 November 2019
The annual conference of the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) took place from the 17th-19th of September in Athlone, Cape Town, with the theme The Right to Health: 25 years into our constitutional democracy.
20 November 2019
Hundreds turned out to UWC’s School of Public Health to pay tribute to the late David Sanders
20 November 2019
Since news of David Sanders’ sudden and untimely death broke on Saturday morning the tributes, messages and condolences via emails, whatsapp, phone calls, Facebook and Twitter have not stopped pouring in.
20 November 2019
We, the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, condemn the physical and verbal attacks on our foreign sisters and brothers from Africa in the strongest possible terms.
19 November 2019
Are the essential structures and attitudes in place to honour the active roles of communities in health and support them? Are our health systems really calibrated enough locally and do theyinvest in public health grounded in communities?
8 November 2019
The landscape of e-cigarette politics and research is highly contested, given the enormous financial stakes at play.
19 September 2019
SOPH current students, alumni and academics had a productive period at the PHASA 2019 conference.
12 September 2019
Like many public health practitioners, I first got to know David Sanders through his book, ‘The Struggle for Health’. I read it in 1991, six years after it was published. I still have that book, and it sits in my current office.