Centre for Health Policy

The Centre for Health Policy is a department within the School of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It is a research centre focused on health policy and health systems.

Its main research strengths lie in health systems and policy, health workforce policy, mental health systems, HIV prevention and primary health care strengthening. Publication data show work on nurse practice environments, multiple job holding among professionals, community psychiatry integration and user preferences for decentralised PrEP delivery, with methods including mixed methods and discrete choice experiments.

Further themes include maternal and child health services, COVID-19 impacts, electronic health record implementation and engagement with national health insurance, all approached from a systems-level perspective on equity, service integration and governance. The research is focused on South Africa and other low- and middle-income contexts.