Call For Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026: Food Environments (Two Positions)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...FIND OUT MOREShape the Future of Public Health Applications for 2027 opening soonAre you ready to lead change in the health and social development sectors? At the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, our flexible, modular Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (PGD) and Master of Public Health (MPH) programmes...FIND OUT MORECEPSA delivered two podium presentations at the 2026 International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) Africa Chapter MeetingAt the 2026 ISoP Africa Chapter Meeting, held in Windhoek, Namibia, from 18 – 21 May 2026, Dr Nicolas Praet and Dr Ebenezer Wiafe delivered two podium presentations on strengthening the pharmacovigilance ecosystem in Africa through CEPSA’s initiatives.FIND OUT MORERethinking How We Address Gendered Workplace Violence in Primary Healthcare Settings: A Dialogue with Abi BadruConvened by the Imarisha consortium and PSI, the dialogue explored how to address the gender dimensions of workplace violence in PHC settingsFIND OUT MORE
Oxfam Policy Management hosted a webinar on ‘Universal Health Coverage in India: Critical Areas of Policy Reforms and Research for Better CHW Engagement’ on 15 July 2021.
“South Africa’s public health system faces a number of challenges - and we need leaders to solve them, not just managers. That’s one of the lessons COVID-19 has helped drive home - and it’s one we all need to learn.”
As public health researchers and educators in a city currently experiencing a seemingly runaway COVID-19 epidemic, we are increasingly being approached to provide our ‘expert’ opinion on the reasons for this.
In order to support the COVID response across the country, we thought there might be some value in sharing some of the many, many, many blogs and short pieces that present COVID-related experiences that are less well publicized in the mainstream global media.