| Champaklal C Jinabhai. Bsc, MB ChB, FFCH, M Med is a collaborator in this project proposal.
He is the chair of the School of Public Health and the Department of Community Health in the Nelson R Mandela School of
Medicine, University of Natal. He is also Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, University of
Durban Westville and visiting lecturer at the Institute for Child Health, University College, London.
He serves on the Executive Committee of the Faculty and the University Senate to provide leadership and a strong
inter-disciplinary focus between clinical medicine and public health. He also serves on the National Essential
Health Research (ENHR) Committee (as a Ministerial Nominee). These appointments are in recognition of his strong
leadership role in contributing to the formulation of alternative health policies and programme during the
anti-apartheid period in the 1970’s and 1980’s. During the 1990’s he had continued to advise government,
academic, NGO and international agencies and organisations.
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He has published extensively on transformation of health policies, health sector reform, the epidemiological and
demographic transition in Southern Africa, and reform in medical education. As the Chair of the School of Public
Health and Director of the graduate programme in public health he has trained several generations of public health
specialists, who occupy senior positions in the public and private sectors. The full resources of the Nelson R
Mandela School of Medicine, established over the last fifty years, will be available to participate in this project
proposal.
He has led a number of studies and programmes within the School of Public Health. He was a Co-Director of a five
year Fogarty sponsored programme for Education and Training in Occupational Medicine in Southern Africa with Professor
Tom Robins, University of Michigan, School of Public Health. He was the principal investigator of the Economic
Evaluation of a WHO Rrandomised Control Trial of Ante-natal Care, in South Africa; in collaboration with the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and of a WHO TDR programme into schistosomiasis control. He has
served as a consultant to DFID, the EU, WHO and UNICEF on a number of studies, and has produced several health
planning reports for the Durban Metro and the Kwa-Zulu Natal Health Department.
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