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The magic of Cape Town Together: Self-organising, neighbourhood-level responses to the COVID-19 crisis
Cape Town Together, a network of self-organising neighbourhood-level groups known as Community Action Networks (CANs), emerged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers from the Health Policy and Systems Division began working with a team of community organisers, social activists and public health practitioners who sought to catalyse a community-led response to Covid-19, and its socio-economic impacts. From sharing information and resources, to setting up community kitchens, the network became an important part of the overall societal response
11 Dec 2020
UCT-Africa Virtual ENT: A buoyance for academia during COVID-19
Establishing a new online academic programme called UCT-Africa Virtual ENT and launching a flourishing YouTube channel during a pandemic. These are just some of the achievements of the Division of Otolaryngology (ENT) in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
11 Dec 2020
Message from Deputy Dean: Health Services, Dr Tracey Naledi
Within the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Health Services portfolio, the past year was dominated by the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. This was a time of hardship, pain, suffering and death. Who can erase the images of long lines of people queuing for food; or the patient dying alone in hospital without the loving touch of their closest family; or the family left devastated by the death of multiple family members? COVID-19 has served as a harsh reminder of the deep inequities that exist in our country, and the fragility that this brings. It has also been a reminder of the privilege we have to offer care and compassion in a time of need.
11 Dec 2020
Building Global Communities of Practices to Reduce Risks from Chemicals and Waste
Using online platforms, the Division of Environmental Health is developing globally active online peer-to-peer learning, stakeholder engagement and collective problem-solving in the complex environment of ensuring the sound management of chemicals and waste to protect the health of marginalized women, children and workers.
10 Dec 2020
Community rehabilitation workers advocating for disability inclusion during lockdown
At the beginning of the national lockdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic, community rehabilitation workers were invited to participate in a four-week writing circle about their experiences of disability inclusion as frontline workers. This was an opportunity to highlight their efforts as well as their invaluable knowledge of community needs.
10 Dec 2020
Keeping mothers in mind: COVID and beyond
Pregnant women and new mothers have been particularly vulnerable, as they struggle to take care of themselves and their new-born babies with limited access to resources during the national lockdown. During 2020, the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP) has been supporting maternal mental health care in low-income communities.
10 Dec 2020
Designing for development
Referring to himself as ‘an avid student of the College of Google and the University of YouTube’, Dr Muzzammil Ismail, a Public Health Registrar in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, is the designer of the award-winning Western Cape Department of Health COVID-19 Public Facing Dashboard, which recently surpassed 2 million views.
10 Dec 2020
Communicating science
The proliferation of fake news and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of science communication. The Faculty of Health Sciences offers a Science and Communication course for all Honours students on the BSc Honours Joint programme, convened by Dr Sharief Hendricks and Dr Nancy Laguette, from the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine (ESSM). In this course, students learn how to write, illustrate and communicate science more effectively.
10 Dec 2020
First cystic fibrosis registry report for South Africa launched
A new annual report from the South African Cystic Fibrosis Registry will help to keep track of people living with this debilitating disease.
10 Dec 2020
Message from the Transformation and Equity Committee
10 Dec 2020
Message from the Postgraduate Health Sciences Students’ Council
2020. Wow, it was a year of the unexpected for students, staff, and the entire world in general. During this year, I served as the chair of the Postgraduate Health Sciences Student Council and the student representative of the postgraduate student oversight and advocacy task team. It was really a year filled with meetings as we had to plan for the postgraduate community, including local and international students. As a team, we ensured that postgraduate students had everything necessary to complete their degrees.
10 Dec 2020
Message from the Chair of the Health Sciences Students’ Council
2020 was a path in my journey I never thought I would ever go through - it brought joy, grief, pain, and success. Being a medical student during a pandemic was challenging in the sense that it provided an opportunity for us to be a part of the response to assist in alleviating the burden. We were also challenged with not being able to study in an environment that we were accustomed to, whilst many were navigating grief at the same time.
10 Dec 2020
Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine tackles COVID challenges and high-risk procedures head-on
From March to September, the COVID Anaesthesia and Airway Team managed more than 500 COVID cases, of which approximately half were intubations and transfers of critically ill patients to ICU, and more than a third cases requiring surgery. Above and beyond the service component to the patients and hospital, the greatest success was the phenomenal collaboration, cooperating and integration of practitioners across professions, disciplines and divisions who typically have little interaction.
10 Dec 2020
The fun side of finance
10 Dec 2020
COVID-19’s sex bias: men more at risk of requiring critical care
A paper by researchers from UCT and UCL investigating the role of sex in patients infected with COVID-19 has been published in Nature Communications.
09 Dec 2020
How the stressful crush of emergency remote teaching became an all-time career highlight
Dr Chivaugn Gordon, Head of Undergraduate Obstetrics & Gynaecology Education embraced the drastic shift to Emergency Remote Teaching with great chutzpah.
09 Dec 2020
A quiet (r)evolution: reimagining the undergraduate anaesthesia curriculum during a pandemic
Dr Adalbert Ernst, Specialist and Undergraduate Convener for Anaesthesia in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine reflects on his online teaching experience.
09 Dec 2020
Hormonal contraceptives, hurting or healing – UCT study investigates
Research on vaginal health in young women, specifically in the territory of hormonal contraceptive methods, continues to evolve. Despite the benefits of contraceptives, which are vital for young women’s reproductive health and used worldwide by over 150 million women, some concern has arisen on the potential effects of these prevention methods on the vaginal environment, and the associated risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
08 Dec 2020
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