2012 Public Health Field Trip Background

Yesterday happened at a tremendous pace!  5 different flights, missed flights, airport transfers but eventually 6 Capetonians, a Mpumalangan a Congolese, a Cameroonian, a Brit, a Ghanaian made it to from their origins in Cape Town to Sunnyside Park Hotel in Johannesburg in a tired but excited state.

Senior lecturers, occupational health registrars and public health registrars are all looking forward to the long awaited public health field trip that was organized by Dr. Neil Cameron.  In the next two weeks we will visit and learn at the:
NIOH (http://www.nioh.ac.za/),
SASOL in Secunda where we will visit their facilities as well as a coal mine (http://www.sasol.com/sasol_internet/frontend/navigation.jsp?navid=1&rootid=1)
NICD (http://www.nicd.ac.za/)
WITS School of Public Health (http://www.wits.ac.za/publichealth/10374/publichealth.html)
WITS Rural Health Facility (http://www.wits.ac.za/wrf)

More information on the party:

Dr Neil Cameron:  Officially retired public health specialist but still very much involved in organizing field trips utilizing his experience, wealth of knowledge and a career of contacts.

Dr Fidele Mukinda:  Senior Lecturer in Health Systems and Services Research - Stellenbosch University

Dr Julius Ayuk:  Registrar in Occupational Medicine - Stellenbosch University
Dr Mutheiwana Dombo:  Registrar in Public Health - University of Cape Town
Dr Gina Bernhardt:  Registrar in Public Health - University of Cape Town
Dr Ziyaad Essop:  Registrar in Occupational Medicine - Stellenbosch University
Dr Rosamund Southgate: Registrar in Public Health - NHS, UK
Dr Sikhumbuzo Mabunda:  Registrar in Public Health - University of Cape Town
Dr Vivian Apiah-Baden:  Registrar in Public Health - University of Cape Town
Dr Robin Dyers:  Registrar in Public Health - Stellenbosch University
Dr Bart Willems: Registrar in Public Health - Stellenbosch University
Me Charlyn Goliath:  Occupational Therapist, Health Systems Research - Stellenbosch University
Me Alysha Aziz:  Public Health USA - Bay Area, San Francisco

Thank you to Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and Stellenbosch University Rural Medical Education Partnership Initiative (SURMEPI) for funding us to go on the fieldtrip.

http://www.mepinetwork.org/

http://surmepi.sun.ac.za/ (website under construction)