About BHMS
The Behaviour and Health Management Sciences (BHMS) Division is a combination of the Health Policy and Management Track and Health Promotion Track in the SHSPH. The key objectives of the BHMS Division are to develop capacity in South Africa and the rest of Africa to
- Manage health services and systems,
- Develop and implement policies to improve population health, and
- Undertake health promotion activities to address communicable and non-communicable diseases.
We do this through our formal modules in the Master of Public Health programme, the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health, and the Albertina Sisulu Executive Leadership Programme in Health (ASELPH). We also present several short courses related to behaviour and health systems management.
The Division has a vibrant research programme focussed on health systems management and health promotion research including the supervision of student research at Master’s and Doctoral level.
Finally, the members of the BHMS are also active in community engagement in various settings.
BHMS Staff
| Name: | AYO-YUSUF Lekan, Prof |
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| Qualifications: | BDS (Benin); MSc. Odont; DHSM; MPH (Pret); PhD (Maastricht) | |
| Position: | Professor and Chairperson/Head: School of Health Systems and Public Health | |
| Portfolio: | Director: Africa Centre for Tobacco Industry Monitoring and Policy Research Director: National Council Against Smoking (NCAS), South Africa | |
| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | Prof Ayo-Yusuf is a NRF B-rated scientist with main research focus on behavioural epidemiology and related policy evaluation for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prevention and health promotion. In particular, he has been an investigator and/or co-investigator on national and international research, including clinical trials and capacity-building projects related to tobacco use prevention, treatment/cessation and policy. He is also working on resilience studies having previously directed the USAID-funded multidisciplinary 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. | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0003-0689-7018 | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3273 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building, Room no: 5-40 | |
| Name: | BUCH Eric, Prof |
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| Qualifications: | FFCH(CM)(SA), DTM&H, DOH, MSc(Med), MBBCh | |
| Position: | Professor | |
| Portfolio: | Principal Investigator: Albertina Sisulu Executive Leadership Programme in Health (ASELPH) | |
| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
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| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3289 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building Room no: 6-09 | |
| Name: | MBATHA Nothando Andile, Dr |
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| Qualifications: | PhD (Health Promotion) (UP), International Master of Public Health (University of Queensland), ASELPH(UP), Postgraduate Diploma Dietetics (UKZN) | |
| Position: | Lecturer | |
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| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | School health promotion, child and adolescent health, public health nutrition and non-communicable diseases. | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-0796-9426 | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3280 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building, Room no: R6-13 | |
| Name: | OYEKUNLE Victoria, Dr |
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| Qualifications: | BSc Statistics (UNILORIN) BSc (HONS) Applied Statistics (UFH) MSc Biostatistics and Epidemiology (UFH) | |
| Position: | Lecturer | |
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| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | Longitudinal Analysis, Survival Analysis, Missing Data, Randomized Controlled Trials | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0003-0548-4705 | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3255 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building, Room no: 6-09 | |
| Name: | ROOS Heleen, Dr |
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| Qualifications: | MBChB (UFS); DOM&H (Pret); MMed Public Health Medicine (Pret); FCPHMSA; PG Dip HSE (current) (Wits) | |
| Position: | Lecturer | |
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| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | One Health; Health Professions Education. | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-2401-5720 | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3289 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building, Room no: 6-07 | |
| Name: | SENKUBUGE Flavia, Prof |
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| Qualifications: | MBChB(Pret) MMed Public Health Medicine (Pret) FCPHM (SA) MBA (HWU) PhD (Pret) | |
| Position: | Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences | |
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| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | Prof Senkubuge is a Public Health Medicine specialist. Her interest areas are global health diplomacy, Sustainable development, health systems and policy, gender equality, health equity, decolonising global health, race, medicine and healthcare | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-0069-006X | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 319 2108 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | Health Sciences Building, Deans Complex, Room no: 5-16 | |
| Name: | THSEHLA Evelyn, Prof |
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| Qualifications: | BSc (Med Science) (UP), MPH (UP), PhD (Economics)(UP), MSc (Health Technology Assessment) (UoG) | |
| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Portfolio: | Head of Division: Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | Estimating the economic burden of diseases, health technology assessment, health benefit package design. | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0003-4098-5804 | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3276 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building, Room no: 6-14 | |
| Name: | WOLVAARDT Liz, Prof |
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| Qualifications: | B Cur(Pret), MPH (Pret), PhD (Pret) | |
| Position: | Professor | |
| Portfolio: | Programme coordinator: Online Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (PGDipPH) | |
| Division: | Behaviour and Health Management Sciences | |
| Research Interest: | Prof. Wolvaardt is a public health and education specialist. Her research interest is health systems strengthening and particularly the use of action research as a way to strengthen health systems. Her other research interests are the inclusion and expansion of public health in the undergraduate medical curriculum, professional development and living theory | |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0002-3157-8863 | |
| Telephone: | +27 (0) 12 356 3278 | |
| Email: | [email protected] | |
| Office: | HWS North Building, Room no: 6-12 | |