Professor Glenda E Gray’s CV is a thing to be marvelled at. One insight gleaned by skimming the 66-page document is not about the detail and variety of her illustrious career so much as that some people seem to live more, do more, think more, read more and write more in the same life span that the rest of us are, more or less, given.

Key dates, interventions, and impacts of responses are helping to create a community of practice among African countries

South Africa’s COVID-19 trajectory is unique, because unlike most other countries, it did not see an exponential increase in cases after its first 100 cases.

The South African Medical Research Council’s President & CEO, Professor Glenda Gray is among the Forbes Pan-African list of 50 most powerful women on the African continent. Being the first of its kind, the list was compiled and published by Forbes Africa Magazine in its March issue ahead of the 2020 Leading Women Summit that was held in Durban, KwaZulu Natal recently where Prof Gray was also one of the speakers.

The SAMRC was featured in the Commonwealth Health Report 2020 on Achieving Universal Health Coverage in South Africa. The publication comes at a time when health is in the headlines across the world. Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been declared a global health emergency by the WHO, and is putting huge pressure on countries’ health services and reinforces the need to build stronger health systems for universal health coverage.