Health education is the first step in Health behaviour change. But by focussing too much on the content, we often forget about context.Healthy Humans delivers accurate health content that is simple to understand and relatable. We recognize that although people make health decisions for multifaceted reasons, knowledge sharing is the fundamental building block for good health choices. Therefore our mission is to simplify healthcare education.Healthy Humans recognizes too that… Show more Health education is the first step in Health behaviour change. But by focussing too much on the content, we often forget about context.Healthy Humans delivers accurate health content that is simple to understand and relatable. We recognize that although people make health decisions for multifaceted reasons, knowledge sharing is the fundamental building block for good health choices. Therefore our mission is to simplify healthcare education.Healthy Humans recognizes too that health is not only the 'absence of disease' but the 'complete physical, mental and social well-being. We hope to empower people to make good health decisions and reach this highest attainable level of health for themselves and their communities.Join us on the journey to becoming an empowered and Healthy Human. Show less

Hello and welcome to the Behind the Frontline Podcast! Join me as we focus on topical health issues and look towards finding solutions. We celebrate people and organizations doing great things in healthcare, especially those helping in low and middle-income countries – those people that want to change the world.The podcast explores are important health issues that everyone should know about. With the help of expert guests, I will chat about these in a way that is simple to… Show more Hello and welcome to the Behind the Frontline Podcast! Join me as we focus on topical health issues and look towards finding solutions. We celebrate people and organizations doing great things in healthcare, especially those helping in low and middle-income countries – those people that want to change the world.The podcast explores are important health issues that everyone should know about. With the help of expert guests, I will chat about these in a way that is simple to understand.I hope you will join me on this journey. Together let’s try to figure out how to change the world! Show less

As the Medical Officer in the Medical Division (within Product Solutions Division), my duties include providing medical insights for all product related queries from the new business to the claim payout stage. Additional tasks include keeping abreast of new developments in the medical field and providing insights to the company to drive R&D.

Investigative documentary into the toxic workplace of our frontline healthcare workersHow would you describe South African frontline healthcare workers?Self-less? Heroic?How about fragile?The COVID19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the health system. We were made acutely aware of the collective need to protect health resources, to flatten the curve, in order to maintain a functioning health system. However, prior to COVID19, the system was already fragile due to the… Show more Investigative documentary into the toxic workplace of our frontline healthcare workersHow would you describe South African frontline healthcare workers?Self-less? Heroic?How about fragile?The COVID19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the health system. We were made acutely aware of the collective need to protect health resources, to flatten the curve, in order to maintain a functioning health system. However, prior to COVID19, the system was already fragile due to the fragility of its main functional cog: the healthcare worker.Almost 3 years ago now, we launched an investigative exploration into the toxicity of the health workplace in South Africa. We collected real-life anecdotes, lived experiences, of everyday healthcare workers in the country. We crafted a documentary around these anecdotes (that are devoid of personal identifiers) to explore the landscape of the healthcare worker/health system interface.Our self-less, heroic and fragile frontline healthcare workers need our attention and protection now more than ever.This is a look Behind the FrontlineVirtual premiere 30 Sep 2020 6 PM. Show less

Assistant Investigator with Drakenstein Child Health Study - Clinical lead at site in Paarl (Western Cape).Duties included the clinical and operational management of the by the successful implementation of study protocols, SOP's and on-going staff training. I had a strong focus on operational efficiency and introduced many new processes that improved on key deliverables of the study.There was also a concurrent international RSV Vaccine trial (randomized dobule-blinded… Show more Assistant Investigator with Drakenstein Child Health Study - Clinical lead at site in Paarl (Western Cape).Duties included the clinical and operational management of the by the successful implementation of study protocols, SOP's and on-going staff training. I had a strong focus on operational efficiency and introduced many new processes that improved on key deliverables of the study.There was also a concurrent international RSV Vaccine trial (randomized dobule-blinded placebo-controlled) where I served as the Medical Officer. Duties included screening potential participants, on-going safety reporting, liaising with external monitors/stakeholders, operational reporting, amongst others. Show less