A call to care: challenging assumptions about telehealth
Beth Vale | September 2022 Like many working in the health sector, we've seen an explosion of telehealth innovation over the past few years, with COVID forcing providers to do...
The beginning of everything
Shivani Ranchod | August 2022 Women’s Month. Eliciting so many feelings. Feelings of rage at the violence that women are still subjected to. An embodied feeling of the unexpressed NO –...
Five ways in which South Africa can advance equity
July 2022 By By Rose Tuyeni Peter, Beth Vale and Daryl Swanepoel For current and future generations to flourish, we need to build and harness multi-dimensional forms of intergenerational wealth: the health, education,...
Home is where the health is – but healthcare systems are blind to households on the edge
April 2022 By Beth Vale and Emma Finestone Our health systems are often blind to households – they only see individual patients. However, one thing is plain: the future of healthcare (particularly...
We have to be creative and harness ideas of hope to reduce inequality in South Africa
April 2022 By Anja Smith, Jodi Wishnia, Carmen Christian and Daryl Swanepoel Creative solutions in the areas we now know that matter most for inequality — education and labour market access and...
Achieving wellbeing equality for South Africans is a dream that should not be deferred
February 2022 By Anja Smith, Dave Strugnell and Daryl Swanepoel Ensuring a high-quality education system is the single most important thing that can be done to reduce inequality. The country has made...
Percept and The Covid Vaccine
Perceptors | November 2021 This is a collection of our reflections on receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. They reflect our diversity of experiences and views and styles (satire, poetry, advocacy), but...
Honoring the enduring heart of Tania Douglas
Percept | May 2021 Tania was an academic who operated at the interface of technology and health. As a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Cape Town, she...
The rules of contagion
Dave Strugnell | October 2020 In this bizarre year of 2020, and after several months spent trying to understand and model the coronavirus pandemic and its health and mortality impacts,...
The secondary health consequences of Covid-19: the role of fear and economic decline in health seeking behaviour
Dr Anja Smith | October 2020 Covid-19 and its secondary impacts on the health system became very real to me one day in March, shortly after the identification of Patient Zero...