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09 September 2021 | Story Lacea Loader
Dr Samantha Potgieter, infectious disease expert at the Universitas Academic Hospital and affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of the Free State (UFS), will answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and its affects.  

The webinar will address questions such as the following:

• what vaccination is and how it works
• how vaccines are developed and how we know they are safe and effective
• how the COVID-19 vaccine works and how it can protect you
• the side effects of the vaccine
• the risks vs benefits of the vaccine.

You can also forward questions prior to the webinar to grimbeekl@ufs.ac.za

Date: Friday 10 September 2021
Time: 11:00-12:00
Register for the webinar


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Lecture on systems approach to health systems research
2006-11-24

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

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