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Nina Veenstra joined HEARD as KZN research fellow in October 2003. She trained initially as a physiotherapist and later graduated from the University of Cape Town (2002) with a Masters degree in Public Health. Prior to becoming a member of the HEARD team she was in Papua New Guinea doing disability-related work, which involved largely training, research, and programme management. At HEARD Nina was initially involved with a mortality study in Swaziland and in compiling Cabinet Briefs and Reports. She is now working on a bigger research project investigating the burden of HIV/AIDS on provincial health services in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Samantha is an HIV&AIDS consultant based in South Africa, prior to this she was Policy Adviser - HIV&AIDS at VSO, in London. She focuses on policy reform and implementation around HIV&AIDS and gender. In particular the importance of addressing gender inequalities and the greater involvement of men, as a key response to addressing the pandemic and mitigating the impact. She has also undertaken extensive work on HIV&AIDS and democracy & governance, and the importance of strengthening health systems as a critical part of the HIV&AIDS response. Most of her work has focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the UK and the UN system. She specialises in policy analysis and review, capacity building and mentoring, facilitation and training and programme evaluation. Prior to working at VSO she was Project Director at HEARD, and before that was Information Manager at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She has a Masters in Political Science.
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Dr Jeff Gow specialises in the economics of health generally and HIV/AIDS in particular. He holds a position at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. His links with HEARD go back to 2000 when he spent a year in Durban as Acting Director of the organisation. |
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May's background is in health sciences, education and human geography. She worked for several years as a secondary school teacher and in community development in Canada before engaging in HIV/ AIDS research in South Africa. She joined HEARD as a visiting scholar in 2004, facilitating participatory research in Durban's Warwick Junction, a bustling urban transport hub and informal trading area. In this research, she examined the impacts of HIV/ AIDS on street traders, noting the distinct and disproportionate vulnerabilities of older women and grandmothers. She has since begun to investigate social mobilization around the epidemic in South Africa, and in particular the gender dynamics of community-level responses. May has also been involved in developing a partnership between Carleton University and HEARD. Her doctoral research at Carleton is supported by Canada's Trudeau Foundation.
Present position: doctoral candidate, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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