Reimagining Healthcare Beyond COVID-19
Shivani Ranchod | September 2020 Shivani Rancod, CEO of Percept, discussed how we can leverage digital solutions to reimage healthcare delivery beyond Covid-19 and how we can prevent deaths resulting...
Percept and Women’s Month
Perceptors | August 2020 This is a collection of our reflections during Women’s Month. They reflect our diversity of experiences and views and styles (satire, poetry, advocacy), but also share...
Looking into the crystal ball: trajectories for South Africa over the next 12 months
Shivani Ranchod | July 2020 Written for the Board of Healthcare Funders Covid-19 has stripped away the illusion of certainty: there is no room for denial. After months of a global...
No time to wait
Covid-19 does not arrive to a blank canvas. Instead, it snakes through pre-existing queues, igniting sites of vulnerability. As it does, it teaches us that we cannot have a...
Pickled Fish
A story about food that is a story about heritage, neighbourliness and innovation.
Percept and BLM
Perceptors | June 2020 The events of the last few weeks have resonated deeply with the Percept team – we’ve been saddened and enraged, we’ve turned inward to engage our...
We need caution, robust methods and strong evidence when quantifying the mortality impacts from the Covid-19 recession
Anja Smith | May 2020 During the last two weeks debates and discussions on the direct mortality impacts of Covid-19 relative to the mortality impacts that will flow from the...
We were already sick: Covid-19, non-communicable diseases, and the health response we really need.
Beth Vale | May 2020 In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an ‘epidemiological transition.’ The world was no longer...
Corona testing: the cost of certainty
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020 As with so much surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated Covid-19 illness, people world over are faced with trade-offs between the individual desire to...
When statistics lead to compassion and solidarity
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020 Paradoxically, wide-spread panic about the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, and the associated covid-19 illness does not necessarily lead to sufficient preparedness and action. Wise...