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She is the current chair of the WHO/Afro region African Advisory Council on Research and Development (AACHRD), concerned with advising the WHO/Afro regional director on matters concerning health research and development in Africa. She is the president of Women in Global Health (WGH) South Africa. WGH is a global movement with chapters across the globe and is concerned with achieving gender equality within global health leadership. She is the Vice-President of the African Federation of Public Health Association (AFPHA), an organisation concerned with advocating and promoting public health in Africa. At heart she is a philanthropist and is passionate about mentoring the next generation of leaders. |
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He is also working on resilience studies having previously directed the USAID-funded transdisciplinary Southern Africa resilience innovation programme (SARiLab) as part of the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN), made up of 20 African Universities and three US partner Universities. The programme allows for the development of innovative interventions including technologies that can strengthen health systems and community disaster resilience. Prof Ayo-Yusuf serves as a member of the editorial board of a number of international journals and as a member of a number of national and international scientific committees/groups including current role as the Deputy Chair of the Standing committee on Health of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), a member of the WHO Tobacco Regulation Scientific Group and Chair of Gauteng Provincial Health Research Committee. |
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In collaboration with Anglo American his team is implementing integrated health and development solutions in many mining communities living next to 24 mines. This work is done with the Impact Catalyst lead by the CSIR. He leads the UP team in developing two population surveillance sites as part of the GRT-INSPIRE SAPRIN node in Gauteng. Jannie received several awards in education innovation (2009, 2012) form UP, Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of SA (HELTASA) National Teachers Award(2013), a lifetime award for innovation, research and service by the South African Medical Association (2018) and the UP Health Sciences award on Community Engagement(2020). Jannie trained at UFS and practiced primary care in Qwa-Qwa in the Free State from 1984 to 1988, before moving to Medunsa, and subsequently University of Pretoria in 2006 where he retired as head of Family Medicine in January 2021. |
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Pierre’s research activities comprise health policy and systems research related to governance, financing, immunization, knowledge translation, non communicable diseases, mHealth and quality improvement. Pierre graduated as MD from Université de Nancy, as clinical radiologist and MSc in Biomedical engineering from Université Claude Bernard Lyon-France and completed his PhD in Health Policy at Makerere University Kampala, Uganda. |
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