Speaker Biography

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Her main research activities include: evaluation of alternative sources of finance for improved provision of health services; equity issues within the health sector, especially in terms of the distribution of health and health care resources between different socio-economic groups; access to and utilisation of health services; and evaluation of the geographic allocation of health care resources.

In addition, she has served on a number of policy committees. These include serving on the Health Care Finance Advisory Committee to the Department of Health of the Government of National Unity, the Minister of Health's Committee of Inquiry into a National Health Insurance for South Africa and the Medical Schemes Council. She has also chaired the Minister of Health's Medicine Pricing Committee since its establishment in 2003.