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Departmental Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic saw our Faculty staff and students respond with heartfelt compassion and dedication to working collaboratively. Many research activities were pivoted to address the new questions arising - in the basic sciences, on the clinical platform and in the community - with inspiring results. Our teaching moved innovatively to blended learning - remotely and onsite. On the clinical platform, our colleagues also collaborated across disciplines to treat COVID-19 patients, while still maintaining essential patient care. Here are some of our Departmental highlights:
23 Jan 2021
Information and Communication Technology Services
Employees in the Faculty of Health Sciences abruptly shifted to working from home when the national lockdown was announced in March. For ICT, this precipitated a chaotic rush to allocate, set up and distribute 50 laptops to staff and postgraduate students in just four days before the lockdown took effect.
23 Jan 2021
Managing the engine room: Operations team
The Operations Department has been juggling many balls at once by rendering essential services to the Faculty during the last year. From ordering, controlling and issuing personal protective equipment (PPE), to ensuring health and safety compliance with COVID-protocols, to outsourcing cleaning services, to arranging transport, to event and venue logistics and much more.
23 Jan 2021
Critical care
Dr Shrikant Peters, Public Health Medicine Specialist in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medical Manager of Theatre Services, Critical Care and Anaesthetics at Groote Schuur Hospital provides an insider perspective into the juggling act of managing critical care services through a public health emergency.
23 Jan 2021
Expert calls for rapid vaccination to achieve population immunity
“Without rapid vaccination of at least two thirds of the population, we are not going to get to population immunity in the country, and without that, we will see another wave.” This is according to Professor Marc Mendelson, who recently presented a virtual Summer School lecture titled “COVID-19 insights and lessons”.
20 Jan 2021
Writing circles with community rehabilitation workers reveals their contribution to disability inclusion during lockdown.
Since 2012, the Division of Disability Studies has been training students in community based, disability-inclusive practice. At the beginning of lockdown related to the Covid-19 pandemic, alumni from this invited to participate in a writing circle about their experiences of disability inclusion as frontline workers. This opportunity illuminated the vital work they do as well as their invaluable knowledge of community needs.
19 Jan 2021
