Senior Researcher, SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science – PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Teurai Rwafa is an accomplished public health practitioner; with years of experience in health promotion practice, including social and behavioural change, policy advocacy, strategic communication, multi-stakeholder engagement, planning, designing, implementing, and coordinating public health programmes and interventions for both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
She is a mixed methods researcher; whose work emphasises qualitative approaches. She has worked in various research capacities, providing her with experience in project conceptualisation and management, proposal development, grant writing, data collection, data management, data analysis, and write-up of findings as well as proficiency in monitoring and evaluation, evidence translation, including capacity strengthening and knowledge sharing.
Teurai is enthusiastic about evidence-based decision-making. Her research, interests and publications include critical issues addressing gender-based inequalities, strengthening health-promoting systems to improve public health, community health workers, food environments, health determinants and recently, COVID-19 impacts. This work includes being a published co-author of a textbook on health promotion.
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