Risk Communication in Pharmacovigilance: Lessons from Vaccine Safety Communication in a Complex Information Environment The Centre of Excellence, will lead initiatives to strengthen pharmacovigilance activities in South Africa and more broadly in the Southern African Region. FIND OUT MORE School of Public Health highlights the importance of trauma-informed research and community health worker well-being at Global Mental Health Symposium Three SoPH scholars presented at the World Universities Network Global Mental Health Symposium at the University of Cape Town FIND OUT MORE School Of Public Health Hosts UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor: Prof Robert Balfour to a walk-about The 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 MORE The good bold days – Rethinking the fight for gender equality and human rights The 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
4 July 2025

Spotlight on UWC Public Health Research

We’re proud to celebrate Tinashe Zigomo, a PhD student at the UWC School of Public Health, whose proposal on “Barriers and solutions to accessing essential breast cancer medicines in low-resource settings” received a positive review from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium as part of their PhD Light Review process.