Risk Communication in Pharmacovigilance: Lessons from Vaccine Safety Communication in a Complex Information EnvironmentThe Centre of Excellence, will lead initiatives to strengthen pharmacovigilance activities in South Africa and more broadly in the Southern African Region.FIND OUT MORESchool of Public Health highlights the importance of trauma-informed research and community health worker well-being at Global Mental Health SymposiumThree SoPH scholars presented at the World Universities Network Global Mental Health Symposium at the University of Cape Town FIND OUT MORESchool Of Public Health Hosts UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor: Prof Robert Balfour to a walk-aboutThe School of Public Health was highly honoured to host the Rector and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape on a walk-about.FIND OUT MOREThe good bold days – Rethinking the fight for gender equality and human rightsThe world of 2026 is marked by overlapping crises that continue to expose the fragility of our systems and the persistence of inequality. FIND OUT MORE
As a collaboration of six implementation research grants on gender transformative approaches to sexual, reproductive and maternal health across Africa, we convened a conversation to discuss how intersectionality applied to our work.
The Gender Transformation for Africa (GT4Africa) Cohort Writing Workshop was held from 9-13 September 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa with 21 participants across the 6 projects and 13 organisations.
In the month of October, UWC hosted visiting academics from The Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil – Prof Ana Vieira, Dr. Gustavo Gomes, and Prof. Flavia Clemente.
The three-day validation workshop held in Cape Town from May 8-10, 2024, brought together 20 feminist - researchers, academics, implementers, and activists from 12 countries and 16 institutions in Africa.
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.
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.