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28 November 2019

Harnessing knowledge for the design and implementation of Universal Health Coverage

The South African Medical Research Council with the National Department of Health, hosted a two-day UHC symposium attended by the National Department of Health, representatives from the SAMRC, health researchers, provincial health departments, international non-governmental organisations and front line health workers.

20 November 2019

From primary health care to universal health coverage—one step forward and two steps back, by David Sanders et al

The Declaration of Alma Ata and the movement it inspired was aspirational and ambitious.

20 November 2019

Reflections on PHASA 2019: The Right to Health 25 years into our constitutional democracy, by Manya van Ryneveld

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 SOPH to pay tribute to the late David Sanders

Hundreds turned out to UWC’s School of Public Health to pay tribute to the late David Sanders

20 November 2019

Tribute to David Sanders from Uta Lehmann

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

Statement on Xenophobic attacks

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

Breastfeeding Room Opens At UWC School Of Public Health: Empowering Working Mothers At UWC

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