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Vacancy: Manager - Pharmacovigilance in Southern Africa Initiative The School of Public Health and School of Pharmacy at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), in partnership with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium are establishing a cutting-edge Pharmacovigilance in Southern Africa Initiative. FIND OUT MORE Faculty Of Community & Health | Sciences School of Public Health - Senior Lecturer What began as an academic visit quickly turned into a deeply personal and transformative journey, one that reconnected me with inspiring mentors, reminded me of shared struggles, and offered fresh perspectives on health systems, justice, and inequality. FIND OUT MORE UWC Celebrates Tarryn’s Global Achievement in Pharmaceutical Public Health Tarryn Jeftha, a Master of Public Health candidate at UWC, was awarded a full scholarship to attend the prestigious Pharmaceutical Policy Systems course at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Belgium, as the only South African participant in... FIND OUT MORE Spotlight on UWC Public Health Research We’re proud to celebrate Tinashe Zigomo, a PhD student at the UWC School of Public Health, whose proposal on “Barriers and solutions to accessing essential breast cancer medicines in low-resource settings” received a positive review from the Institute of Tropical... FIND OUT MORE
1 December 2023

SPaRCS Strengthening Clinical Trials Oversight Workshop

The SPARCS Project hosted a workshop to support increased collaboration and networking between national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and national ethical committees (NECs) on the regulation of clinical trials in Southern Africa and identify priority areas for a framework for effective clinical trial oversight in the region.
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1 December 2023

SPaRCS Pharmacovigilance Systems Strengthening Workshop

The SPaRCS Project hosted a Pharmacovigilance (PV) Systems Strengthening Workshop, 9-11 July 2023 in Windhoek, Namibia.  The workshop marked the final in a series of capacity strengthening and mutual learning workshops in the Pharmacovigilance Systems Strengthening thematic area, and was attended by fifteen participants from seven countries (Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, and Belgium)
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7 November 2023

Pharmaceutical policies in health systems Course at ITM, Belgium.

Two SOPH staff members, Hazel Bradley and Renier Coetzee, co-facilitates in a 3-week course that equips participants with the tools to understand, analyse and propose strategies for strenghtening pharmaceutical systems and their role in universal health coverage.
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26 May 2023

Shifting unequal gender​​ norms and practices: what does it take?

Despite growing recognition, calls for gender transformation are not matched with corresponding rigorous research and learning on what it entails at scale and over time. It is common to come across published papers that merely mention the need for more gender responsive / transformative interventions/approaches but often fall short of articulating, why, how and what is needed to move the needle forward.      
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16 March 2023

New Partnership with the School of Public Health, UWC to develop responsive Dialogues guidelines for LMICs

ICARS is pleased to announce that we have selected The School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape in South Africa to undertake a new project to develop guidelines to facilitate Responsive Dialogues to tackle AMR in Low-and Middle-Income (LMIC) settings.
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