Prof Helen Schneider, MBChB (Cape Town), DCH (SA College of Medicine), DTMH (Witwatersrand), MMed (Witwatersrand), PhD (Cape Town)

Helen Schneider is a public health specialist and health systems and policy researcher who has worked for more than 25 years on South Africa’s health system. She joined the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape in 2011 and was its Director from 2013 to 2016. Since 2015, she has also been the director of the UWC/MRC Health Services to Systems Research Unit, and since 2016 a South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Health Systems Governance.  Helen’s research and policy interests have included an understanding of the political dynamics of AIDS policy under the Mbeki government and the health system-wide implications of programmatic interventions such as ARV scale-up;  the implementation of South Africa’s Ward Based Outreach Team Strategy; governance and leadership of national community health worker programmes; and most recently, contemporary approaches to district health system strengthening and governance.

Unit Director: Prof Helen Schneider
School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape
Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville, 7535
Tel office: 021 959 3563
Email: hschneider@uwc.ac.za