Janine Simon-Meyer Email & Phone Number

South Africa

South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Accredited mediator in medical negligence and general health sector (MiM/UCT). I am a member of and included on the South African Medico Legal Association's directory of medical mediators, serve on the SAMLA Committee for Continuing Medical Mediation Education and am an active participant in the SAMLA/ Gauteng Department of Health's Medical Mediation Pilot Project.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

C4D/SBCC specialist, currently C4D consultant UNICEF SA, for Covid-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement. As an independent practitioner I work at community and academic level and through all levels of governance, district to regional. My focus is research, strategic planning, capacity building and enabling participatory communication. Recent projects include developing the SBCC strategy for the National Food and Nutrition Security Plan (RTHD/UNICEF), facilitating the Communication, Media and Society module for Wits School of Public Health (SPH)'s MPH in SBCC and developing a guide for provincial and district social service practitioners to integrate SBCC programmes into social services (MOTTMacDonald /PACT). I've also worked with WHO AFRO and UNICEF (ESARO/WCARO) to strengthen national SBCC planning for immunisation, WHO AFRO to review member states’ immunisation communication strategies, and Wits SPH/WHO EURO on a social and behavioural tool for district managers to increase immunisation uptake. Through Sibambene (2002-14) I co-led numerous consultancies to provide SBCC technical support, programme development and capacity strengthening, primarily in SA but also in the SADC region. I was a facilitator for the UNICEF C4D Training Course (2013-15), on the team developing the SADC regional guidelines on SBCC for HIV and AIDS, TB and STIs (2014), and support the WITS MPH in SBCC on an on-going basis.

Jhb South Africa

Maximising the impact of communication in development through technical support, capacity building, programme development, research and advocacy. Sibambene's scope of work included: As Technical Partners on SBCC, providing comprehensive and site-specific support to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)’s regional programme and local implementing partners (2005-12), and Thembalethu, Mozambique (2011-14), to build resilience to HIV/AIDS in migration-affected communities;As Capacity Builders, developing the SADC harmonized regional guidelines on SBCC for HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs (CSI Plus/African Development Bank 2013-14), and facilitating the Wits SPH SBCC Planning and Implementing Module for N’weti – Comunicação para a Saúde (Mozambique 2013);As Programme Developers, developing an SBCC strategy, implementation plan and tools to improve maternal and child health outcomes (PATH/ Billiton 2013), and an integrated response to silicosis, TB, HIV and STIs (Thembalethu SA/URC 2013-14) in mining affected communities;As Researchers and advocates, at the 5TH SA AIDS Conference, 2011 (poster), International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, July 2011 (paper), and the 19th International AIDS Conference, 2012 (Poster/with Hlokomela/HTT). See: https://www.facebook.com/SibambeneDevelopmentCommunications/

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Medical Correspondent, The Star, covering the post-democracy restructuring of South Africa’s public health services, clinical, research and epidemiological news and the emerging HIV and AIDS epidemic (1994-1998) General and freelance (1984-1994).

Msc (Med) By Research And Dissertation. School Of Public Health, University Of The Witwatersrand, (Health, Communication, Development)

My dissertation explored the functioning and impact of a farmworker-led system of dialogue for wellness and HIV prevention on commercial.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology

Matric

Activities and Societies: Prefect. Award for Best English pupil