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 MOREHealth and Harmony Take Centre Stage at KESS Research Day 2025Theme: Health and Harmony: Ecosystems, Equity and Evidence for Sustainable Well-beingFIND OUT MORECEPSA’s first pharmacovigilance training workshopThe 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 FIND OUT MOREStrengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries – current practices, challenges and proposed strategiesAt 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
This short course is targeted at a wide range of audiences, e.g. postgraduate students, researchers, health professionals and managers, and other decision-makers
PhD candidate Catherine (Katie) Pereira-Kotze spoke to Tumelo on eNCA on Thursday 21 July 2022, about one of her PhD publications that maps out maternity protection policy in South Africa, that demonstrates the fragmentation in over 20 policy documents available.
The Food Environment Research group (a collective from Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, School of Public Health and the DSI/NRF Center of Excellence in Food Security) at the University of the Western Cape under the leadership of Prof Rina Swart is seeking Post-doctoral Research Fellows to work on the PURE and gut-microbiome studies.
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.
The Food Environment Research group (a collective from Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, School of Public Health and the DSI/NRF Center of Excellence in Food Security) at the University of the Western Cape under the leadership of Prof Rina Swart is seeking Post-doctoral Research Fellows to work on several studies related to the food environment in South Africa.
The School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape seeks to recruit a full-time doctoral candidate from January 2022. The doctoral candidate will be required to register at the University of the Western Cape, and will work on a 3-year project funded by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC).
The School of Public Health (SOPH) at the University of the Western Cape invites you to a 5-part webinar series introducing rapid reviews and scoping reviews in the field of Public Health and Health Systems research.
I wanted to engage with a comprehensive way of understanding public health problems, and devise new ways to measure performance that enhance the co-accountability of multiple sectors for health outcomes.