In March 2017, in response to reports of acute hunger on our campus, and knowing that large numbers of students were going to class on an empty stomach, the School of Public Health started offering students a basic breakfast twice a week.

Faraz Khalid, a 2016 Emerging Voice for Global Health and a PhD candidate at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA, shares his reflections on 2016.

CHESAI​ is a collaborative of health policy and systems researchers based in the Western Cape, South Africa.

From 14-18 November 2016, 2,062 delegates from 101 countries assembled in Vancouver, Canada, for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research on the theme of ‘Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world’.

South Africa is a middle-income country of around 55 million people, two thirds of whom live in urban areas.

As pointed out in the policy paper, Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are a global concern, as is the obesity epidemic.