2 October 2025
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30 August 2024
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
22 May 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
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
Emeritus Professor David Sanders celebrated in a special issue of the Brazilian Journal Salude em Debate.
4 February 2020
Emeritus Professor David Sanders' life and works celebrated at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2020
20 November 2019
The Declaration of Alma Ata and the movement it inspired was aspirational and ambitious.
20 November 2019
Hundreds turned out to UWC’s School of Public Health to pay tribute to the late David Sanders
20 November 2019
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
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.
9 September 2019
Amid the huge gap that has been left by David’s death, most intensely for his family, the outpouring of tributes and messages is testament to the countless individuals he influenced across the corners of the world.
4 September 2019
David Sanders, an internationally renowned paediatrician and public health researcher, has spent fifty years involved in struggles for health in Zimbabwe, the UK and South Africa.