Prof Frikkie Booysen, lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the Free State (UFS), delivered his inaugural lecture on a systems approach to health systems research and development.  His subject area is health economics, development studies and research methodology and his research focuses on key health issues, links between health and poverty, and the role of migration in development.

At this inaugural lecture were, from the left: Prof Dingie van Rensburg (Head of the Centre for Health Systems Research and Development at the UFS), Prof Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS), Prof Booysen, Prof Tienie Crous (Dean: Faculty Economic and Management Sciences at the UFS) and Prof Philippe Burger (Head of the Department of Economics at the UFS).

Photo: Stephen Collett