CEPSA Newsletter (December 2025) Welcome to CEPSA’s Community of Practice (CoP)! The CoP is a network of excellence between and by PV experts in Africa. FIND OUT MORE Health and Harmony Take Centre Stage at KESS Research Day 2025 Theme: Health and Harmony: Ecosystems, Equity and Evidence for Sustainable Well-being FIND OUT MORE CEPSA’s first pharmacovigilance training workshop The Centre of Excellence for Pharmacovigilance in Southern Africa (CEPSA) marked a major milestone with its first pharmacovigilance workshop in November 2025, bringing together experts from across Africa to strengthen PV capacity through immersive, hands-on training
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Strengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries – current practices, challenges and proposed strategies At the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APSSA) 2025 Conference, Lagoon Beach, Cape Town, South Africa, I had the opportunity to deliver a podium presentation on strengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries. FIND OUT MORE
21 June 2021

Management strategies

This module was created to help prepare individuals in the fields of health and welfare for the challenging role of manager particularly at programme, district and sub-district levels.
21 June 2021

Health promotion

This module was created to help prepare individuals in the fields of health and welfare to gain an understanding of the concepts and practice of Health Promotion.
21 June 2021

Population health and development 1

The main purpose of this module is to introduce you to the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Approach: its origins, rationale, philosophy, theory, concepts and practices.
21 June 2021

Descriptive epidemiology

This module was designed to meet the growing need for an applied course in the measurement of a variety of health indicators and outcomes.
14 June 2021

Introducing Public Health

The module aims to introduce you to a wide range of Public Health issues which will then be developed in more detail across the other five modules of this programme.
13 April 2018

Building public health capacity through a short course professional development programme: A guide

The School of Public Health (SOPH) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has been hosting continuing professional development short course programmes since its inception in 1992. In the past few years we have often been asked by colleagues in schools of public health and similar institutions, both in South Africa and in other parts of the continent, what it takes to set up and continue running such a large and sustained programme in an academic institution; why interest does not wane; and how we manage the focus, substance and logistics of this programme. This guide endeavours to respond to these questions – to assist those university colleagues who are considering the development of similar continuing professional development programmes in the health and related social sectors, both in South Africa and further afield.