Biography

Ellenore is a medical doctor and health manager with a PhD in holistic health and integrating spiritual care into patients’ management, a master’s degree in bio-ethics and health law and a diploma in health systems management and executive leadership. She is a social justice ambassador with over 10 years of experience in health and social development. Ellenore manages interdisciplinary community development and health service delivery in informal settlements as part of her role at the Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria. She is also an emerging fellow of an executive leadership programme through UP and Harvard. Ellenore is a published author and has presented talks on health and wholeness on TV and radio. She climbed Kilimanjaro to raise awareness against human trafficking in 2012 and speaks on ethical, health, and social development issues as an outflow of the community work she is doing for the most vulnerable in South Africa. She is the director of the Tebelo NPC, an organization aimed at improving social development in South Africa and Africa, with a focus on maternal and child health on projects with educational, holistic health, and community strengthening focus.

Discipline/s

Family Medicine,

{Community Health Care, Informal Settlement Health, Spiritual Health Care, Holistic Health}

Research description

The Imvelo research is a longitudinal study that will follow up individuals and households of Cemetery View over a five year period. A mixed methodological approach will be followed with both qualitative and quantitative data that will be collected.  The research will examine the influence of food and food insecurity on households in Cemetery View over a period of time with logically spaced time points and with the introduction of a food system. The purpose of longitudinal research studies is to gather and analyze quantitative data and qualitative data, on the impact of a food system to mitigate food insecurity and improve residents’ skills, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviours of individual subjects over a period of time. This research project will analyse from inception to execution the initiative for sustainable food for this community and may add to a better understanding of the different components required to implement and sustain a food system in vulnerable communities.

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