Ms Tanya Jacobs

BSocSc (UCT), Hons (Psych) (Rhodes), MPH (UWC)

Consultant / PhD (Countdown 2030 Project)
E: tanyaj@iafrica.com

Tanya Jacobs joined the SOPH in May 2017 as a consultant to the Partnership for Health Leadership and Management (PAHLM) project, a collaboration between the universities of the Western Cape and Cape Town and the city and provincial Health departments.

As such, she facilitates Action Learning Sets with participants from the Klipfontein Mitchell’s Plain and Northern Tygerberg sub-structures as well as teaches on the Management Strategies Course.

Between 2018 and 2019 Tanya was also a researcher in the Countdown 2030 team, a global initiative focussing on reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent and child health. Her focus is on adolescent health, including multi-sectoral adolescent collaboration, provision of sexual and reproductive health interventions in humanitarian settings, as well as an analysis of the global financing facility investment cases and project appraisal documentation. Tanya is currently a PhD candidate with the SOPH.

Projects

Gender-transformative research in Africa: collective learning and synthesis to improve sexual reproductive and maternal health rights and services

The overall aim of the project (February 2022-May 2025) is to foster a strengthened community of researchers and policymakers informed, connected and empowered to use gender-transformative frameworks and methods in their research and practice.

Learning partnerships for gender-transformation (LP4GT) in South Africa

The three year project started in February 2022 and will develop and explore learning partnerships to support gender-transformative innovations in adolescent and young people’s sexual and reproductive health in South Africa

Children in All Policies 2030

The SOPH, with its South African partners will lead work on community and multi-sectoral approaches to addressing alcohol as a determinant of children’s and adolescent’s health and wellbeing in South Africa.

Between Rhetoric and Reality: Learnings From Youth Participation in the Adolescent and Youth Health Policy in South Africa

Staff inolved: Tanya Jacobs and Asha George

A scoping review of the determinants of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in South Africa: an intersectional perspective

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

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