SOPH-web-logoSOPH-web-logo3SOPH-web-logo3SOPH-web-logo
  • About Us
    • School Of Public Health
    • Staff
    • Bi-Annual Reports
    • Annual Jakes Gerwel Award
    • Annual David Sanders Lecture
    • Funders & Partners
  • Professional Development
  • Academic Programmes
    • Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (NQF Level 8)
    • Master of Public Health (NQF Level 9)
    • PhD in Public Health (NQF Level 10)
    • iKamva portal for registered students
  • Research & Publications
    • SARChI Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change
    • SARChI Chair in Health Systems Governance
    • SAMRC Extra Mural Research Unit – Health Systems to Services
    • Projects
    • Publications
  • Resources
    • SOPH Programme Handbook 2021
    • Open Education Resources
    • Guides
    • FAQ
  • News & Events
  • Contact
✕
  • Home
  • News
  • Spotlight: Dear Mr President, we need to talk about our health system, by Lucy, Jane, Uta & Helen
Categories
  • News
  • SARChI Chair in Health Systems Governance
  • South African Medical Research Council Extra Mural Research Unit
Tags

Spotlight: Dear Mr President, we need to talk about our health system, by Lucy, Jane, Uta & Helen

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.

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. By Lucy Gilson, Jane Goudge, Uta Lehmann and Helen Schneider.

The four professors, Lucy Gilson from the University of Cape Town, Jane Goudge of the University of the Witwatersrand, Uta Lehmann and Helen Schneider from the University of the Western Cape state upfront their commitment to supporting the development of a health system that promotes health and wider social benefits, and contributes to redressing the inequities in our society.

They believe the 2019 elections provide a window of opportunity to institute actions that could, over the longer term, develop the health system as such a mechanism of societal transformation.

They make important points that should serve as reference for the ongoing and critical needed debates taking place as government considers various pieces of legislation and recommendations to fix our health system.

Continue reading

We urge you to support actions now that will provide time and space for greater learning about how to manage the process of change moving forward. How we support change in the health system is a necessary componenet of delivering that change.

✕
Tweets by SOPHUWC

Announcements and Events

  • DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023
    23 November 2022
  • Call for Applications: DSI/NRF SARChI Health Systems Governance Postdoctoral Fellowship 2023
    23 November 2022
  • Jakes Gerwel Award 2022: Thembisile Zungu
    31 October 2022
✕

Contact Details

Tel: +27 21 959 2809
Fax: +27 21 959 2872

School of Public Health
University of the Western Cape
Robert Sobukwe Road
Bellville 7535
Republic of South Africa

​Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0.
© 2021 UWC | School Of Public Health. All Rights Reserved. Spotkolours Design

    Contact Us