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2018-03-19	Prof Solomon writes book on human security in Africa
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2018-03-19	UFS collaborates with Wits, UWC to present higher education PhD Conference
2018-03-19	UFS collaborates with Wits, UWC to present higher education PhD Conference
2018-03-19	Call for applications for the 2018 Global Leadership Summit
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2018-03-13	Prof Heidi Hudson appointed as UFS Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities
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2018-03-13	Interdisciplinary master’s programme in human rights launched at UFS
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2018-03-01	Plant science researcher contributes to food security, one garden at a time
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2018-03-01	Theological faculty highlights reconciliation as Biblical imperative
2018-03-01	Theological faculty highlights reconciliation as Biblical imperative

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Extraordinary professor appointed

2005-11-10

UFS appoints its first extraordinary professor for health systems research and development

Prof Dingie van Rensburg (Director: Centre for Health Systems Research and Development at the UFS) and Prof Helen Schneider (senior researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand's Centre for Health Policy and extraordinary professor at the UFS Centre for Health Systems Research and Development). Photo: L Loader

The Centre for Health Systems Research and Development (CHSR&D) at the University of the Free State (UFS) has appointed its first extraordinary professor.

Prof Helen Schneider, former director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) and currently senior researcher in that Centre and consultant in the WITS School of Public Health, was appointed by CHSR&D for a period of two years.

“Prof Schneider is widely known for her thorough experience, expertise and exposure in the field of public health, health policy and management and health policy and systems research. We are honoured to have her join us as an extraordinary professor,” said Prof Dingie van Rensburg, Director of CHSR&D.

Prof Schneider will be involved in various components of the CHSR&D’s long-term project on public sector anti-retroviral treatment (ART) and will also assist in the documenting, monitoring, evaluating and facilitation of the implementation of the national treatment plan in the Free State. She is also assisting the Gauteng Department of Health in a similar way.

“The two provinces are actually so different. They provide a different window on the realities of HIV/AIDS and the intellectual traditions involved in it,” said Prof Schneider. “I hope to contribute meaningfully to finding new dimensions for research necessary in order to optimise the contribution and effect of the research on ART,” said Prof Schneider.

Another need for Prof Schneider’s appointment is to strengthen the senior research capacity of the CHSR&D, guide them with the ART project and assist in the implementation of research results into policy, management and practice.

Media release
Issued by:Lacea Loader
Media Representative
Tel: (051) 401-2584
Cell: 083 645 2454
E-mail: loaderl.stg@mail.uovs.ac.za
9 November 2005

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