SARChI Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change Archives - University of the Western Cape

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...

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The Struggle for Health: 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2023)

At the time of Prof David Sander's passing, he was working on an updated edition of this influential book, The Struggle for Health:

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2023 Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice

You are invited to join the University of the Western Cape School of Public Health (UWC-SOPH) and People’s Health Movement for the Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice and the launch of the 2nd Edition of...

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New Partnership with the School of Pubic 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...

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16 February 2023

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DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change – Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023 – Learning Partnership Project for a Gender Transformative Approach (LP4GT)

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.

15 February 2023

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DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Health Systems Governance Postdoctoral Fellowship 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.

6 May 2022

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Collaborative project on gender transformative approaches to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa launched

The School of Public Health recently began work on two exciting aspects of a global research project focusing on gender transformative approaches to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa.

11 August 2021

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Practice of death surveillance and response for maternal, newborn and child health: a framework and application to a South African health district

Staff inolved: Fidele Mukinda, Asha George, Sara Van Belle, Helen Schneider

11 August 2021

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Democratic South Africa at 25 – a conceptual framework and narrative review of the social and structural determinants of adolescent health

Staff inolved: Tanya Jacobs and Asha George

11 August 2021

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Are rhetorical commitments to adolescents reflected in planning documents? An exploratory content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Global Financing Facility country plans

Staff inolved: Asha S. George, Tanya Jacobs, Mary V. Kinney, Annie Haakenstad, Neha S. Singh, Kumanan Rasanathan & Mickey Chopra

4 August 2021

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Policy foundations for transformation: a gender analysis of adolescent health policy documents in South Africa

Staff inolved: Tanya Jacobs, Asha George, Michelle De Jong

23 March 2021

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Health Policy Analysis for Annual Reviews

In this one-hour webinar, Asha George and Mary Kinney from University of the Western Cape in South Africa provide an overview of health policy analysis.

10 December 2020