Conference Co-Chair
Prof. Sally Guttmacher
Emerita Professor of Public Health, New York University, USA
Senior Technical Advisor: Community Rising Africa Network
Sally Guttmacher, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at New York University and Senior Technical Advisor, HealthRight International USA. She is also a Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Dr. Guttmacher’s current primary research interests are in the areas of health and human rights, especially applied to reproductive health HIV prevention in marginalized populations and the health risks encountered by cross-border migrants.
She has been the Principal Investigator of a number of research projects. She has published text books entitled: “Community-Based Health Organizations” and “Community Based Health Interventions”. Dr. Guttmacher helped to develop a certificate on Health and Human Rights with courses to be offered on line through NYU and HealthRight International in USA.
Dr. Hannah Degge
Assistant Professor, Health Promotion and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Dr Hannah Degge is an Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Public Health, in the Faculty of Medicine and School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. She has a master’s in public health from University of Leeds, United Kingdom and a PhD from University of Hull, United Kingdom.
In the last 13 years, she has worked in various roles in higher education both for undergraduate and post-graduate studies. She has also carried out numerous international health research projects and has several peer reviewed publications. A passionate public health advocate, Dr Degge’s interest in identifying and addressing the impact of social injustice on health outcomes for the vulnerable in the society, underpins her interest in public health, research, and health workforce development. In contributing to community development, she volunteers for a local charity Youth Aspire Connect(YAC), as a researcher and community engagement coordinator in Hull, United Kingdom where she lives. Her current research with YAC is a Wellcome Trust funded project titled ‘Normalising mental health and wellbeing conversations among young people from minoritised ethnic background’.
She is a registered practitioner with the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) UK, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, and an affiliate member of the Chartered institute of Environmental Health
Steering committee
Emerita Professor of Public Health, New York University, USA
Senior Technical Advisor: Community Rising Africa Network
Sally Guttmacher, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at New York University and Senior Technical Advisor, HealthRight International USA. She is also a Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Dr. Guttmacher’s current primary research interests are in the areas of health and human rights, especially applied to reproductive health HIV prevention in marginalized populations and the health risks encountered by cross-border migrants.
She has been the Principal Investigator of a number of research projects. She has published text books entitled: “Community-Based Health Organizations” and “Community Based Health Interventions”. Dr. Guttmacher helped to develop a certificate on Health and Human Rights with courses to be offered on line through NYU and HealthRight International in USA.
Division of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine,
University of Cape Town, South Africa
David is a Public Health Medicine Specialist with more than 30 years experience in Infectious Diseases particularly HIV, TB and STIs. He worked on the development of these services for the national department of health in Pretoria, South Africa from 1994. In 2001 he joined the University of Cape Town and assisted MSF with setting up the first public sector HIV and antiretroviral primary health care services in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the early 2000 s. He has also been involved in Child Health particularly immunisation and the causes of mortality in children under 18 years of age.
Full Professor and Director, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,
School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Canada
Full Professor and Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Canada. She is also a researcher in Global Health at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, and adjunct professor at the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape. Her training is multidisciplinary – BSc (Biology – U Toronto), MD (McMaster), MPH (International Health – Harvard), PhD (Anthropology – McGill).
Her career in rural and cross-cultural clinical medicine, academic public health in Canada and South Africa, and research management/funding not only has sought to put into practice a critical social theory and feminist perspective, but also a commitment to cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral work aimed at transforming research, teaching and partnership paradigms for health and social equity within and between countries.
Prior to joining U Montréal in 2014, she was Professor of Public Health and founding Director of the Centre for Research in HIV and AIDS at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. There she launched and continues to lead a programme of research and post-graduate training on vulnerability, resilience, migration, diabetes and HIV and health systems in complex contexts of inequality.
From 2000-2009 she was Senior Scientific Advisor for health and leader of the health systems and Research for Health Equity suite of programmes at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). She is on several editorial and advisory boards and is regularly invited to join global expert consultations, most recently on research capacity strengthening, chronic disease, HIV and key populations, and implementation research.
Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar), Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr Jalal Mohammed currently works as a Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar), Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focuses on strengthening health systems in low-and-middle-income countries. Specifically, Dr Mohammed is interested in improving healthcare access from a systems perspective. To this extent, his research focuses on health reforms and health leadership as a means to effect change. Dr Jalal’s strong sense of giving back to my communities links his research to Pacific health systems, Fijian health and broadly Pacific health. Dr Jalal aims to inform policy-makers, health managers and health practitioners working in low-and-middle-income health systems on improving access to health care and health outcomes through his research.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. Sally GuttmacherEmerita Professor of Public Health, New York University, USA
Senior Technical Advisor: Community Rising Africa Network
Sally Guttmacher, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at New York University and Senior Technical Advisor, HealthRight International USA. She is also a Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Dr. Guttmacher’s current primary research interests are in the areas of health and human rights, especially applied to reproductive health HIV prevention in marginalized populations and the health risks encountered by cross-border migrants.
Dr. Rima Semiarty
