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Welcome to the School of Public Health and Family Medicine

The School of Public Health and Family Medicine is a strong multidisciplinary department in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town.

SASOM Occupational Medicine Medal awarded to Dr Dorothy Ngajilo

The medal was awarded to the best candidate in the national Occupational Medicine examinations of the CMSA held in Durban on 18 May 2017

Farewell to outgoing and welcome to new HOD and Director of the School

The School expressed its thanks and appreciation at a function held on 25 May 2017 to Prof Mohamed Jeebhay whose term as HOD/Director ends on 30 June 2017 and welcomed Prof Landon Myer as he commences his 5-year term as HOD/Director on 1 July 2017.

A/Prof Tolu Oni to lead Global Young Academy

Tolu has been elected to jointly lead the Global Young Academy (GYA) as co-chair for 2017/18. As co-hair she will represent the GYA worldwide, engage with a range of influential leaders and organisations.

NSTF Award for emerging researchers

A/Prof John Ataguba, Health Economics Unit, was awarded the TW Kambule-NSTF Award for emerging researchers at the 19th National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-South32 Awards Gala Dinner held on 29 June 2017.

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Saturday, 19 August 2017

Public health project empowers communities to address their needs

A new partnership between UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Training for Transition Training (TFT) Consultancy and Women on Farms Project aims to test a model for addressing challenges by training local citizens to provide basic community health services as health activists.

Publication Date:

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 11:15