24 May 2023

The Struggle for Health: Medicine and the politics of underdevelopment

By: David Sanders, Wim De Ceukelaire (ed.), Barbara Hutton (ed.)
22 May 2023

The Struggle for Health: 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2023)

At the time of Prof David Sander's passing, he was working on an updated edition of this influential book, The Struggle for Health:
6 April 2023

2023 Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice

You are invited to join the University of the Western Cape School of Public Health (UWC-SOPH) and People’s Health Movement for the Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice and the launch of the 2nd Edition of ‘The Struggle for Health’
4 February 2020

Prof David Sanders celebrated in a special issue of Journal Salude em Debate

Emeritus Professor David Sanders celebrated in a special issue of the Brazilian Journal Salude em Debate.
4 February 2020

Prof David Sanders’ life and works celebrated at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2020

Emeritus Professor David Sanders' life and works celebrated at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2020
20 November 2019

From primary health care to universal health coverage—one step forward and two steps back, by David Sanders et al

The Declaration of Alma Ata and the movement it inspired was aspirational and ambitious.
20 November 2019

Hundreds turned out to UWC’s SOPH to pay tribute to the late David Sanders

Hundreds turned out to UWC’s School of Public Health to pay tribute to the late David Sanders
20 November 2019

Tribute to David Sanders from Uta Lehmann

Since news of David Sanders’ sudden and untimely death broke on Saturday morning the tributes, messages and condolences via emails, whatsapp, phone calls, Facebook and Twitter have not stopped pouring in.
12 September 2019

A teacher, a role model, a good laugh

Like many public health practitioners, I first got to know David Sanders through his book, ‘The Struggle for Health’. I read it in 1991, six years after it was published. I still have that book, and it sits in my current office.