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By: Solange Durão, Jacob Burns, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, David Tumusiime, Ameer Hohlfeld, Lisa Pfadenhauer, Clémence Ongolo-Zogo, Eva Rehfuess and Tamara Kredo
In 2021 the SPARCS Project held a series of three virtual workshops aimed at strengthening the Pharmacovigilance (PV) Systems in the four countries in Southern Africa, based on an assessment of needs.
by Star Khoza, Carnita Ernest and Hazel Bradley
The School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape (SOPH), is seeing to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellows attached to the SARCHI Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change (Prof Asha George) and her collaborators, beginning as soon as possible in 2023.
The School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape (SOPH), is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow attached to the SARCHI Chair in Health Systems Governance (Prof Helen Schneider), to advance a programme of work.