The Vaccine Advocacy Resource Group and the African Alliance, in partnership with the Community Constituency COVID-19 Front, the Treatment Action Campaign, and APHA bring you COVID-19 Conversations.
These conversations seek to ensure that civil society is kept up to date on the latest COVID-19 research, strengthen the culture of accountability between researchers and civil society and contribute to shared learning and unlearning in the research sector as it relates to COVID-19.
Traditional Health Practitioners are a critical part of South Africa’s Public Health response. In the context of COVID-19, their role, positioning, and importance is the subject of increased public ...
This week we speak about Global Health in the age of COVID-19. We speak with Rosemary Mburu, who has been a champion for healthy communities for over fifteen years. Mburu currently serves as the Execu...
This week we speak about COVID-19 vaccines and the search for equity in an unequal world. We speak with Safura Abdool Karim, a public health lawyer and senior researcher at the Wits School of Public H...
This week we speak to Professor Graeme Meintjes who is an Infectious Diseases Physician and the Second Chair and Deputy Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He also hold...
This week we speak to Dr Gonasagrie Nair, Clinical Research Site Leader/Senior Medical Officer for the DTHF’s Emavundleni research site & Dr Katherine Gill, Clinical Research Site Leader/Senior Medi...
This week we speak to Oliver Meth, the Communications Lead at the South African National AIDS Council Civil Society Forum and the Community Constituency COVID-19 Front on his experiences in the commun...
This week we speak to Dr Anban Pillay the Deputy Director-General of South Africa’s National Department of Health. Hailing from Kwa-Zulu Natal province, a former health intern, Dr Pillay, was spurre...
This week we speak to Phinah Kodisang the CEO of the Soul City Institute for Social Justice. In this role, she leads strategic direction and accountability for the programmatic, operational, and finan...
Vanita Daniels joined Rise as a Director in April 2019; she is an invaluable team member. Her areas of expertise include Total Quality Management, Organisational Development and a wealth of experience...
This week we speak to Fatima Hassan who is a South African human rights lawyer and social justice activist. She's the founder of and heads the newly established Health Justice Initiative in South Afri...
This week we speak to Simba Takuva, Azwi Takalani & Kagisho Baenyape of the HVTN network. Simba Takuva, a medical epidemiologist advisory to Takalani, a public health medicine specialist both work as ...
This week we speak to Sibongile Tshabalala who is the Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign and partner with the COVID-19 Conversations weekly webinar series She was diagnosed with HIV in 2000....
This week we speak to Glaudina Loots the Director for health innovation at the Department of Science and Technology and responsible for implementing the health components of the bioeconomy strategy ...
This week we speak to Ntando Yola who is a founding member of the Vaccine Advocacy Resource Group and co-lead of APHA Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS, which host and partner with the COVID-19 ...
This week we speak to Mabalane Mfundisi who is the Co-convener of the Community Constituency COVID-19 Front one of the main partners of the African Alliance and the Vaccine Advocacy Resource Groups CO...
This week we speak to Quarraisha Abdool Karim, (Ph.D.) is an NRF A1 rated scientist and infectious diseases epidemiologist. She is the Associate, scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program...
This week we speak to Quarraisha Abdool Karim, (Ph.D.) is an NRF A1 rated scientist and infectious diseases epidemiologist. She is the Associate, scientific Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program...
This week we speak to Professor Sinead Delany- Moretlwe the Director of Research at Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) and a Research Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the U...
This week we speak to Professor Koleka Mlisana who has been the Executive Manager: Academic Affairs, Research & Quality Assurance at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), since July 2018. Pri...
This week we speak to Professor Jeffrey Mphahlele who has since October 2014 been the Vice President for Research at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). Mphahlele is an elected member ...
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This week we speak to Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP (SA), Ph.D., is Deputy Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University ...
This week we speak to Larry Corey, former President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and in 1998, the founder of the world’s largest publicly funded international collabora...
Today we speak to Dr. Jackline Odihambo who has held various roles in the public health and clinical research quality/management arenas, including treatment, prevention, and vaccine infectious disease...
This week we speak to Professor Glenda Gray a global leader in the scientific and research landscape. A long-time activist and first female President and CEO of the South African Medical Research Coun...
A Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, co-founder and co-Director of the African Leadership Initiative for Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE) and Director of the South African M...