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UWC-SOPH Contributes to the 2nd Public Health Diplomacy Summit in Memphis UWC-SOPH’s Prof Olagoke Akintola, Dr Woldekidan Amde, and Dr Anam Nyembezi attended the 2nd Public Health Diplomacy Summit, an engaging platform for dialogue and collaboration, hosted by the University of Memphis School of Public Health from 23–25 March 2026. FIND OUT MORE Risk Communication in Pharmacovigilance: Lessons from Vaccine Safety Communication in a Complex Information Environment The Centre of Excellence, will lead initiatives to strengthen pharmacovigilance activities in South Africa and more broadly in the Southern African Region. FIND OUT MORE School of Public Health highlights the importance of trauma-informed research and community health worker well-being at Global Mental Health Symposium Three SoPH scholars presented at the World Universities Network Global Mental Health Symposium at the University of Cape Town FIND OUT MORE School Of Public Health Hosts UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor: Prof Robert Balfour to a walk-about The School of Public Health was highly honoured to host the Rector and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape on a walk-about. FIND OUT MORE
27 September 2018

Spotlight: Building public health system capacity for NHI: Learning from disease-specific successes for system development, By Helen Schneider, Uta Lehmann, Lucy Gilson

We are reminded on a daily basis of failures in our public health system: strikes, stock-outs, critical vacancies, vulnerable patients left to die, cancer patients without treatment, dilapidated and poorly equipped facilities, rampant corruption and wholesale capture of provincial health departments.
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30 November 2017

Symposium: Public health perspectives on the crisis in higher education

In 2017 we combined the ceremony at which the Jakes Gerwel Award in Public Health for Outstanding Contribution in the field of Public Health was awarded with a symposium on ‘Public health perspectives on the crisis in higher education’ – in the wake of the #Fees must Fall movement and debates on decolonising higher education.
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