28 February 2025
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) Professor Helen Schneider and healthcare legend Florence Nightingale share a profound dedication to transforming healthcare systems and improving public health.
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14 July 2023
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
24 August 2021
People’s Health Movement (PHM) Health Systems Thematic Circle hosted the webinar on “The struggles of Community Health Workers at the Covid frontline: Essential but Unrecognised” on 20 July 2021.
3 August 2021
All three participating countries- Thailand, Brazil and Ghana are exemplars in enabling universal access to primary health care.
13 May 2021
Webinar Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 14:00-15:30 South African Standard Time. Keynote speaker: Dr Helen Ndagije (Director: Product Safety, National Drug Authority, Uganda)
25 December 2020
The persistent challenges in public health in the Eastern Cape, highlight the critical role of leadership.
8 May 2020
22 January 2020
The recent publication of the National Health Insurance Bill in South Africa has provoked vigorous debate.
28 August 2019
Based on research on the real-life tasks and challenges faced by policy-makers and managers in taking CHW programmes to scale, and drawing on conceptual and empirical literature on governance,5 this brief presents a framework structured around a set of key questions to ask in assessing the governance of CHW programmes.
27 September 2018
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.
19 September 2018
Four of South Africa’s top public health systems academics last month sent a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa as the country grapples with finding solutions for our struggling health services.
23 August 2018
NHS reforms need to pay attention to capacity development and learning and the process of implementation.