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JOURNALISM
AWARDS
DISCOVERY HEALTH
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D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H
J O U R N A L I S T O F T H E Y E A R ,
B E S T Y O U N G U P C O M I N G
J O U R N A L I S T O F T H E Y E A RA N D D I S C O V E R Y F O U N D A T I O N
N A T I O N A L B U I L D E R
B E S T H E A L T H
E C O N O M I C S
J O U R N A L I S M
B E S T H E A L T H
A N A L YS I S A N D
C O M M E N T A R Y
B E S T H E A L T H
I N V E S T I G A T I V E
R E P O R T I N G
B E S T H E A L T H
T E L E V I S I O N
R E P O R T I N G
B E S T H E A L T H
R A D I O J O U R N A L I S M
B E S T H E A L T H
J O U R N A L I S M
F O R E I G N M E D I A
B E S T H E A L T H
L I F E S T Y L E F E AT U R E
B E S T H E A L T H
C O N S U M E R R E P O R T I N G
A N D F E A T U R E W R I T I N G
B E S T H E A L T H
N E W S R E P O R T I N G
WINNERS
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D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H J O U R N A L I S M A W A R D S 01
A B O U T T H E
D I S C O V E R Y H E A LT H
O U R N A L I S MW A R D S
F I R S T L A U N C H E D I N 2 0 0 8, T H E A N N U A L D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H J O U R N A L I S M
A W A R D S W A S C R E A T E D A S A W AY F O R U S T O R E C O G N I S E A N D H O N O U R T H E
W O R K O U R C O U N T R Y S H E A LT H J O U R N A L I S T S D O I N E D U C A T I N G P E O P L E A B O U T
H E A L T H C A R E I S S U E S .
U N D E R S T A N D I N G H E A L T H C A R E
I S S U E S I S B E C O M I N G I N C R E A S I N G LY
I M P O R T A N T W O R L D W I D E
he ability for health journalists to disl copious amounts of informaon into concise, easy
to read, and understandable language is a crical skill. The media plays an important role
in ensuring that members of the public receive factually accurate and relevant informaon that
helps them to make important decisions concerning their wellbeing. Given this important societal
role health journalists play in tackling complex healthcare issues, and in keeping the healthcare
industry accountable, it is important to recognise and honour the role health journalists play in
strengthening our countrys healthcare system.
W E R E C O G N I S E O U R C O U N T R Y SH E A LT H J O U R N A L I S T S A N D R A I S E T H E
B A R F O R H E A LT H C A R E R E P O R T I N G
he Discovery Health Journalism Awards recognise the role health journalists have in
society, and the Awards serve as a plaorm through which we encourage our countrys
health journalists to connuously aspire to a higher calibre of healthcare reporng. It is through
excellent, well-researched, and informave healthcare reporng that the media is able to make
a posive impact on our countrys healthcare system, and help to improve the quality of life for
many South Africans.
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A L I F E - S A V I N G C A L L : When 24-year-old Madimo Mokgosi who has hepas autoimmune diseasereceived a call to inform her she had a new liver waing for her; she received a new chance at a healthy and producve life.
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I N T H E F U T U R E O F N V E S T I N GO U R N A L I S M
hen people choose to enter the journalism profession,
theres generally a healthy desire for knowledge coupled
with great curiosity and above all, a conscience to present a true
picture of the world to their audience.
Does this always happen? No, sadly not always but in South Africa
we can be proud that we do not have a pervasive culture of tabloid or
guer press as its known. We also have a ne record of free and
fair journalism.
Over the years South African journalism has exposed its public to all
sides of life from the shady to the shocking and the highly emove.
In 1976, front pages around the country featured a photo that would
become a symbol of the emergence of the ght against apartheid an
iconic image of Hector Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo
aer being shot by police. The photographer at the me, Sam Nzima
of The World newspaper, immediately went into hiding but the photo
remained.
Legends such as former Rand Daily Mail Editor Allistair Sparks and
Sunday Express Editor Rex Gibson with their crack invesgave
reporters like Ki Katzen, Chris Day, and Mervyn Rees, worked for two
years on cracking Muldergate, which in 1978 saw the truth emerging
that The Cizen newspaper had been set up and funded for the sole
purpose of being a mouthpiece for the ruling party of the day. And the
list goes on right up to todays stories of fraud and corrupon in our
society. Power will always need a monitor.
There have been aempts to muzzle the media but to date our
hardworking journalists are sll ghng to expose the truth. Truth
a journalists rst obligaon is inextricably linked with its
responsibility to its cizens. Not only to tell the truth, but to impact
the lives of its readers, viewers, and listeners.
Its not enough though to simply set out the facts. Good journalism
needs to engage, to capture our imaginaons and consciences.
There are some who would argue theres no need for journalists in
this age of digital technology aer all anyone can post a story. But
why, without journalisc accountability, would they bother to strive to
separate facts from half-truths, half-truths from lies?
Undoubtedly, the internet presents an important forum for cizen
journalism but real reporng is more than just a regurgitaon of facts
knowing that when you see a certain byline, the name of a trusted
journalist with a proven track record, you know youre in good hands
that the informaon they present will have been looked at from every
angle and veried by sources other than the original.
Today, more than ever, with a wealth of informaon available at
the touch of a buon, readers need to be able to si the truth from
the tale. This cannot be more important than in the eld of health
journalism, where peoples very lives can depend on accurate
reporng and correct advice.
AT D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H W E A R E P R O U D T O E N C O U R A G E A N D S P O N S O RO U T S TA N D I N G J O U R N A L I S M T O F I N D W R I T E R S W H O S T R I V E F O R N O T J U S T
A C C U R A C Y B U T E X C E L L E N C E I N B R I N G I N G T H E I R S T O R I E S T O Y O U, T H E R E A D E R .
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D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H J O U R N A L I S M A W A R D S04WINNER
I N A S K O S A N A | M A I L & G U A R D I A N
F T H E Y E A R
D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H
B E S T Y O U N G
U P C O M I N G
J O U R N A L I S T O F T H E
Y E A R A N D D I S C O V E R Y
F O U N D A T I O N
N A T I O N B U I L D E R
O U R N A L I S T
A N D
P R O F I L E
ven while studying for her BA degree in Journalism
at the University of Pretoria, Ina was reporng on
polics for Beeld newspapers campus edion. Aergraduang in 2010, this talented young writer started
out as a health reporter for The New Age.
Just two years later, Ina was selected as one of 10 South
African journalists to take up an Internaonal Womens
Health Foundaon HIV journalism fellowship. In her
third year of journalism Ina was chosen as a nalist in
the Discovery/loveLife young health reporter category
and today works in this eld at the Mail & Guardians
health journalism centre, Bhekisisa, where she now
mentors other students.
Constantly striving to improve her work, last year
Ina took part in a United Naons Populaon Fund
consultaon on maternal mortality and general
womens health coverage in Uganda.
With a porolio covering maternal health, non-
communicable diseases, teenage pregnancy, medical
and tradional circumcision as well as invesgang how
the Health Professions Council of South Africa deals
with paents complaints about doctors, Ina Skosana is
a denite force in the future of health reporng.
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J U D G E S C I T AT I O N
na Skosana won two other categories Discovery Foundaon Naon Builder Award and
the Young Upcoming Journalist of the Year Award, and she was a runner-up in the Health
News Reporng category. While she covered in depth the now familiar dysfuncons of the
public healthcare system, she also covered the funconal and service excellence in some parts
of the public health system which demonstrates that, despite the bleakness, there is a future
for a life-arming public healthcare system in South Africa.
Skosana demonstrates all the qualies of excellence in journalism well-researched facts,
excellent wring, probing of issues, providing context, and using a diversity of informave
experts and sources.
Her arcle Mothers haunted by hospital hell, that won the Best Young Upcoming Journalist
of the Year Award, tells the story of the death of two young women shortly aer delivering
babies in Mpumalanga. Skosana brings this important story in South Africa to life with
sensive narraves that paint the picture of the circumstances surrounding these deaths and
contextualises them within the larger story of the contribung role of the healthcare system
challenges. The story is well-invesgated, comprehensive, and mely, given the countrys lag
in achieving its Millennium Development targets.
In many ways, this looks at midwifery at an outlying rural hospital and is a story beaufully
craed with memorable case studies, thorough and interesng science, authoritave
sourcing, and thoughul contextualising. It displays excellent storytelling and skilful
structuring. In a category with exceponally strong entries, Ina Skosanas story stands out for
going the extra mile to bring the subject to life from all conceivable angles.
Ina Skosana has established herself as a health journalist to watch.
Y O U N G U P C O M I N G J O U R N A L I S T O F
T H E Y E A R F I N A L I S T
S I P H O S E T H U S T U U R M A NS A B C R A D I O , S T I G M A :
A barrier in ghng HIV and young and living with HIV
D I S C O V E R Y F O U N D A T I O N
N AT I O N B U I L D E R F I N A L I S T
K AT H A R I N E C H I L DT H E T I M E S :
Orange Farm gives world hope
FINALISTS
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A W O M A N W I T H A D R E A M : Dr Neliswa Gogela who received the inaugural Discovery FoundaonMGH Fellowship Award is currently conducng research at the Massachuses General Hospital in Boston, USA, on liver
disease and liver transplantaon. Her research will strengthen South Africas understanding of liver disease.
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What is the Discovery Foundaon about?
The Discovery Foundaon was established in 2006 with the
express purpose of addressing the crical shortage of medical
specialists, parcularly in the public health sector. Discovery commied
more than R100m over 10 years to train around 300 doctors. But rst we
needed to be absolutely clear where the needs were, so we commissioned
independent research and found where these lay both within rural and
other areas for specialist intervenon.
Specically, in terms of rural specialist gaps, we found whenmedical specialists le rural areas they werent being
replaced and while government, the NGO sector, and
terary instuons were training these people, they
werent addressing the gaps that were widening.
This was an area we felt we needed to address.
How did the Discovery Foundaon
Naon Builder Award come about?
Now in our eighth year of the
Discovery Foundaon weve
have made huge strides in bringing
more medical specialists into the public
healthcare sector. We felt it was the right
me to bring in this award to promote and
talk about the amazing work done by our
countrys medical professionals.
There are so many great stories of doctors who
have received Discovery Foundaon Awards
and made amazing intervenons within their
specialies. For instance Dr Chris Sco, a paediatric
rheumatologist, who himself was aicted with this
illness, making him aware of the very few specialists in
this area. Now through the Discovery Foundaon, hes
been able to not only treat children suering from
this illness but train more people with the scholarship
weve provided.
I N T E R V I E W W I T H :
R U T H L E W I N | D I S C O V E R Y H E A D O FC O R P O R A T E S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y
N E W A W A R DC A T E G O R Y
N T R O D U C E S
D I S C O V E R Y H E A LT H
J O U R N A L I S M A W A R D S
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How does the award e in with Discoverys vision of being a
force for social good in society?
Discovery as a business sees itself in everything it does as
a force for social good. Whether through our healthcare or
short-term insurance, were trying to posively impact on peoples
lives. Through our corporate social investment programmes we aim to
make that impact as well.
How do you think this award will add value to health
journalism in South Africa?
Very oen theres media focus around negave stories such
as the lack of facilies in primary healthcare. The award
will prole the wonderful individuals who will hopefully become the
impetus for others doing medical studies to think about what they can
do when specialising.
By proling the work done in these beauful rural sengs we hope
to aract more people to work there. The journalists who cover these
stories can talk about the kind of health problems these communies
have and the need for ordinary people to get access to basic
healthcare. Its not just about selling a dicult working environment
but to show the posives that exist in these communies.
What are the rewards for these healthcare professionals who
give so much?
Working in these areas you have to deal with a whole range
of medical condions, so healthcare professionals will gain
unique experience. Your work crosses into gynaecology, nursing,
pharmaceucal so the training ground is quite phenomenal.
Why dont we see enough of these stories?
There are so few resources available for journalists touncover them. These doctors operate in academic hospitals,
rural primary healthcare facilies, or district hospitals you really have
to go in search of these stories. This award gives us the opportunity
to say weve got a set of people for you if youre just open to it.
Were not looking to create an adversement for ourselves. We really
want to celebrate these amazing people who work under dicult
condions. When you cover these stories you nd a whole host of
others doing similar work in those facilies.
What role do these healthcare professionals play in these
communies?
They really try and engender condence in a healthcare
system that provides good access and quality. Very oen
these medical professionals are the only ones in these communies.
They play the social worker, teacher they live next door to the same
people they work with and treat so it becomes an extension of not
only the healthcare system but of the socio-economic condions
under which people live. This work allows us to extend our support
way beyond purely giving healthcare services. Were geng a greater
understanding of what it is that development means in our country.
Its not just about a rural clinic but about the access available. Having a
road so an ambulance can reach people, water, and sanitaon, which
good healthcare is dependent on. The people who work and live there
become your responsibility, your conduit for informaon. This is so
important for us if we truly talk about being a force for social good.
Why is Discovery so passionate about promong good
news stories?
As a company with its roots rmly in South Africa, we are
excited and posive about our countrys future. Together
with impetus from our CEO Adrian Gore, we really try and push
the fact that so much good happens in South Africa every day. We
understand the challenges but believe if we can promote whats good
we can really galvanise people around idenfying those challenges
with a far more open approach. It cant just be governments
responsibility alone or the private sector or civil society. We need to
work together as a country to address these challenges and a great
place to start is a good news story!
What sll needs to be done in the area of rural healthcare?
We have a fair way to go in addressing the shortages around
medical specialists. This isnt a quick x. Were aiming to
achieve our inial goal within the 10 year mark, but are commied to
going way beyond 2016. Hopefully through the course of this annual
award we can get more support and investment for medical specialists
within South Africa.
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P R O F I L E
s a previous four-me winner of Discovery Health
Journalism Awards, Chris, News Editor of the South
African Medical Journal, has 20 years of Newspaper Experience,
including courts, crime, and polical reporng before nding his
home in health wring.
A rst language Zulu speaker, Chris tesed at the Truth and
Reconciliaon Commission where Archbishop Tutu commended
him on his expos of the 1980s Gugulethu Seven murders.
In 2008 Chris won the Cape Town Press Clubs Senior Journalist
of the Year Award for a story on the potenal collapse of rural
healthcare delivery.
J U D G E S C I T AT I O N
n his arcle Doctor shortages: Unpacking the Cuban
soluon Chris Bateman provides an excellent analysis of the
governments aempt to address the need for more doctors by
sending trainees to Cuba. He does an impressive job of bringing
together the dierent views of experts and academics in medical
training to demonstrate how the soluon might not necessarily
address the problem and might even create new problems. In
this regard, Bateman demonstrates a depth of understanding the
issue in ways that are illuminang and can inform decisions on
medical training in our society in the future.
C H R I S B A T E M A N | S A M E D I C A L J O U R N A L
O M M E N T A R Y
B E S T H E A LT H
N A LY S I S A N D
WINNER
P I E T E R - L O U I S M Y B E R G H
R APPOR T:Nuwe gesig, nuwe hoop
FINALIST
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I N T E R V I E W W I T H :
D R J O N A T H A N B R O O M B E R G | D I S C O V E R Y H E A L T H C E O
E P O R T I N GE A L T H C A R EA P O W E R F U L T O O L
F O R C H A N G E
Do you feel todays health journalists are well enough equipped to
report accurately on health issues?
Many of our health journalists are well-equipped. Theyve been in
the eld for quite a long me and the quality of reporng is very
good. The issues are oen complex ones, moving and changing quickly.
Younger reporters will need to get up to speed but in general, we believe
the quality is of a high standard.
Should the public trust the media?
Many journalists report in an objecve,
well-researched way but there are some
who regurgitate press releases from corporates,
government, and others. People must read
crically and although theres a lot of
informaon you can trust, neither journalists
nor the public should necessarily believe
everything they read.
What are the key areas that
media should be looking at?
The issue of non-communicable diseases
of lifestyle and how these are
impacng health all over the
world. New medical technology
and its complexies always
interest people along with a
whole range of new medical
treatments. At Discovery
Health were interested in
the relaonship between the
public and private healthcare
sectors and the proposed NHI
(Naonal Health Insurance) scheme,
which are of great interest to the public.
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Worldwide people are living longer meaning an ageing
society imposing a heavier burden on healthcare costs. How
can the media help?
Each of us face health challenges as we get older, and for
society, aording healthcare becomes an issue. Science shows
a good middle and older age life comes from invesng early in a
healthy lifestyle, long-term exercise, and good nutrion. The message
isnt only about what you do when youre older but what you startdoing when youre a young person. The media are crical in geng
this message across.
The escalaon of healthcare costs seems to be unsolvable
what should the public be aware of here?
Healthcare costs increasing faster than consumer inaon is a
global challenge. The causes are complex but not impossible
to understand and quite oen the public and policians tend to nd
scapegoats, and are simplisc in their diagnoses. The media are vital in
informing the public about what drives healthcare costs. Individuals and
families can beer control their own costs when the media provides
them with guidelines on using the healthcare system responsibly.
The buzzword in healthcare these days is diseases of lifestyle
is the media doing enough to spread the word in combang
these illnesses or does fast food adversing nullify their good work?
The media in recent years has started to wake up to this
global pandemic of diseases of lifestyle and in South Africa
weve seen a gradual increase in media focus. There could be a lot
more, both in idenfying and helping people understand the risks
spreading the message on how simple, sustainable lifestyle changes
can alter whole sociees and populaons. Theres a mixed message
when the same media carry adversing for junk food, so drinks,sugar, and fat, but thats how the world works. I think that people are
intelligent enough to absorb the right messages while dealing with the
barrage of adversing as well.
One of the biggest problems in South Africa is the exodus of
top quality healthcare praconers how does Discovery
Health feel about this and what can you do to halt or even reverse
this situaon?
Over the last few decades weve lost signicant numbers of
our best and brightest doctors, but we sll have an outstanding
group of specialists and GPs in this country, who are up there with the
best in the world. In some areas theres a shortage but we have beer
and quicker access to high quality healthcare in the private healthcare
system than anywhere in the world. The Discovery Foundaon is
contribung to the training of about 300 new doctors over the next
few years. We believe government also needs to make it easier for
skilled doctors from other countries to work here by cung through the
bureaucracy that makes this challenging.
One stasc suggests that more than 40% of consumers say
informaon found via social media aects the way they deal
with their health what do you say to this?
This is a global phenomenon because the internet has
exposed cizens worldwide to a huge amount of new health
informaon. Quite oen more informaon than a doctor may have at a
parcular point in me. Our view is that this is very posive. People can
empower themselves learn and nd out more informaon, and work
with their doctors to use this informaon in the appropriate context.
The NHI plan is supposedly the blueprint for the countrys
healthcare improvement but presents mulple challenges
for the healthcare industry. How do you see Discovery Healths
parcipaon in these plans?
We see NHI as a possible avenue for bringing together the
best of the private and public healthcare systems. We hope
the private sector can be seen as an asset for the country that can
strengthen the public sector in areas where its very weak. The NHI
could be a soluon for all our healthcare problems but only if we
tackle these in a deep and serious way, not simply imagining this could
be a simple soluon to complex issues.
The government say they want to close the inequality gaps
between public and private healthcare to improve the
standard of the public healthcare system and reduce private sector
costs is this a reality or a pipedream?
Closing the inequality gap in healthcare and other social
sectors such as housing or educaon, is a legimate aspiraon
which we strongly support. Neither government nor civil society can
aord to be glib or believe its an easy thing to do. The faster we grow
this economy and create jobs, the faster well close the unemployment
and equity gaps.
How can you harness the power of the media to improve the
quality of peoples health?
For a long me weve seen the media playing a valuable role
in providing our clients and the general public with important
informaon about health risks and behavioural changes they can
make to improve their health and wellness. Our enre philosophy
globally with Vitality is about creang incenves to movate people to
change behaviour which begins with informaon that the media can
certainly provide to the public.
Do you think enough reporng is focused on people living
in rural areas and the challenges they face, parcularly in
healthcare?
People living in rural areas are a crically important and
untold story. Our media across the board, not just in health
but generally, do not focus nearly enough on this part of our countrysstory. We all need to learn a lot more about the plight and the
struggles of our fellow South Africans living outside of our cies and
understand their health and economic issues beer.
How big a problem is illiteracy in this area in terms of
creang awareness and disseminang informaon?
Illiteracy is a big challenge but radio is a very popular and
powerful medium in this country and as much a part of the
media as print or anything else. Mobile telephony and communicang
via sms and other mobile mechanisms is increasingly possible, so
illiteracy is not as big a challenge as we somemes think it is. South
Africa has also made signicant strides in tackling illiteracy since 1994.
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A F A M I LY M A K I N G M E D I C A L H I S T O R Y : The Lowe family is raising awareness of a rare condion in order to give otherswhat their daughter, Jenna, didnt have: the benet of early diagnosis. In the process they could change the future of medicine in South Africa.
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T A M A R K A H N | B U S I N E S S D AY
P R O F I L E
ith an MBA, an MSc in Science Communicaon, and
a BSc (Hons) in Physics and European Studies, Tamar
is well equipped for her role as Science and Health Editor for
Business Day. Her experience covers wring on healthcare policy,
polics, economics, business, and science on local discoveries
and policy issues.
With a parcular interest in science communicaon, shes spoken
at several internaonal conferences on the dicules South
African reporters face in covering emerging science. Tamar also
holds mulple journalism awards including two Discovery Health
Journalism Awards, and from the USA The Rosalynn Carter
Mental Health Journalism Fellowship and Clive Menell Media
Fellowship from Duke University.
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or a health story to make the front page lead of a serious business newspaper is
no small achievement. If the main source of the story (Cape Health boss warns
on hospital takeovers) is a former ocial who is not known for his accessibility
to the media, it is further tesmony to the journalists credibility, built up over a
consistent career. It is Tamar Kahns posioning and the faith that sources have in
her that ensured that the news story on budget cuts to the Western Capes training
hospitals amid the centralisaon of hospitals, was broken. She pursued the news
tenaciously and the exposure changed the prospects for a provinces healthcare
provision and the leaked plans were reversed.
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E P O R T I N G
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E W S
P I E T E R - L O U I S M Y B E R G H
R APPOR T:
Nuwe gesig, nuwe hoop
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B E S T H E A LT H
N V E S T I G A T I V EE P O R T I N G
J E A N N E V A N D E R M E R W E
C I T Y P R E S S
T H A N D U X O L O J I K A
C I T Y P R E S S
Z I N H L E M A P U M U L O
C I T Y P R E S S
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ampant corrupon, incompetence, and lack of accountability dene healthcare delivery in South Africa today.
The connuing spate of hospital horrors never seems to abate and is hotly debated through various media
plaorms. The series of arcles collecvely referred to as, The Damaged Generaon highlights how this problem has
impacted children through negligence during childbirth. With in-depth, hard-hing analysis, Zinhle Mapumulo, Jeanne
Van der Merwe, and Thanduxolo Jika bring to light this crical issue and the consequenal eects on childhood mental
development. The growing problem of medico-legal malpracce is discussed in careful context and success stories are
detailed. This team is to be congratulated on an eort that represents the pinnacle of invesgave reporng.
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P R O F I L E SJEANNE VAN DER MERWE | City Press
er starng out at the Cape Argus reporng on general news, educaon,
and jusce, Jeanne moved to the grier world of the Sunday Times where
she covered polics and parliament. Seven years later saw Jeanne moving to award-
winning travel magazine Weg, working both in the editorial eld and reporng on
issues aecng travellers in Southern Africa. Three years ago she joined Media24s
Invesgaons Unit where she reports on the banking and transport sectors, the
Naonal Loery, and business interests of various polical gures.
THANDUXOLO JIKA | City Press
When Thanduxolo set out to spend a month living with Somalis in their Spaza shops
in the Eastern Cape, recording the dreadful acts of xenophobia in the area, he didnt
realise these stories would lead to winning mulple journalism awards. These exposs
saw ex-Rhodes graduate Thanduxolo winning the 2010 Vodacom Journalism Features
Award and the coveted CNN African Journalist of the Year Award. Aer graduang in
2004, his early work at the Daily Dispatch covering court reporng, crime, polics, and
special invesgaons prepared him well for his current work as Senior Invesgaons
Reporter at Media24.
ZINHLE MAPUMULO | City Press
No stranger to winning awards, Zinhle has scooped up three top journalism awards
since 2009, including Discovery Health: Best Health News Reporng both in 2009 and
2010, Best Newspaper Reporng: Brandhouse Media Awards in 2012, and recently
she walked away with the Matata Tshedu Best News Report in the City Press in-house
awards. Having worked as a health correspondent for The New Age and The Sowetan
newspapers, as well as several magazines, she is now concentrang on her health
wring at the City Press newspaper.
I N A S K O S A N A
M A I L & G U A R D I A N :
Mothers haunted by hospital hell
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P A U L A C H O W L E S | e N C A
E P O R T I N G
B E S T H E A LT H
E L E V I S I O N
P R O F I L E
now familiar face on our TV screens, Paula has been at eNCA
since its launch in 2008. This has taken her all over the country
from the marbled halls of Parliament to the rolling hills of KwaZulu-
Natal, reporng on a broad range of stories for the news channel.
Winner of the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Television Award in both
2010 and 2011, Paula travelled to CNN for an internaonal fellowship
at their headquarters in Atlanta. Now based in Cape Town, Paula has
been reporng from the legislave capital as eNCAs parliamentary
correspondent but has always gravitated toward health reporng,
especially on issues related to HIV and TB.
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ecve healthcare delivery depends on the availability of high
quality medicines, generally controlled and regulated by largepharmaceucal companies who protect their interests through
patenng. This phenomenon has shaped healthcare delivery worldwide.
In her arcle (The cost of patent laws), Paula Chowles tackles this very
relevant issue through in-depth, thoughul narrave of the nuances
and ever greening of patenng, which she contextualises against the
backdrop of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Through selecve expert comment and real-life experience, she
presents a thought-provoking perspecve on the issue. The piece is
also relevant to the emerging Intellectual Property Act, bringing to
light the liming factors hampering low-cost medical intervenons. An
outstanding example of journalisc excellence.
T E R E N C E P I L L AYC A R T E B L A N C H E :
Addington Hospital saga
J U L I E L A U R E N ZC A R T E B L A N C H E :
Addington Hospital saga
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Are enough tough quesons being asked when covering
medical issues especially about the areas where people need
the medicaon most?
Journalists are asking the really tough quesons. One of the
interesng things in the entries for the Discovery Health
Journalism Invesgave Awards and Best Commentary and Analysis
Award, was to see how the journalists asked tough quesons about
the private and public healthcare sectors and development, not just
here but in other parts of the world. Im proud of that fact.
How important is television and radio in healthcare reporng?
They are very important in a country like ours where
universal literacy is not a reality. Television is visual and
really helps people. This is a more visual/audio than print country
and radio is also very important in reaching people across society
because newspapers and television dont reach all our communies.
The unique factor of radio is that it uses all our naonal languages.
Theres nothing beer than reaching somebody in their own language.
Where do social media writers t into healthcare reporng
bloggers for instance?
Social media doesnt have an editor to be selecve and
journalists who adhere to a parcular code of conduct
around being informave, ethical, and handling informaon for the
public. The blogosphere is a free-for-all. Unfortunately using social
media to spread bad informaon is quite popular but fortunatelyits an addion to media we should celebrate. The danger is that its
unchecked media to a certain extent and therein lies the problem.
Are you seeing improvement in the entries year by year?
Absolutely. Its geng harder for us to make our short list
and we spend quite a lot of me debang the best entries.
Thats the value of awards like this they really inject an element of
incenvising excellence.
Do we have enough specialised journalists in healthcare?
A number of people who enter every year own a parcular
topic or area. Whether reading or listening to our media,
youll nd dedicated health journalists and, importantly, editors who
think this is an important issue. Our country suers a huge disease
burden, so we need more journalists, more coverage, and more space
given to health journalism.
Do you think we should have more advocacy journalism in
healthcare?
We need health advocacy journalism in a big way. If were
going to defeat the burden of disease, create awareness
about condions that could be alleviated, or are not yet a pandemic or
crises, thats what we really need. Take HIV and Aids you dont need
to die of this today but we need more journalists telling people to get
tested, get treatment, and to help remove the sgma.
With social media, how can we ensure a balance of news
about medicine against services, costs, and quality?
Diversity of media is important to give accurate and
balanced reporng on the abundance of informaon out
there. We dont have enough journalists or publicaons covering
health issues. Just as polical news, sport, and economics is important,
health journalism must also be part of the diet.
Should there be more cooperaon between researchers,
private companies, public instuons, and the media to
deliver accurate and mely informaon on health issues?
Health informaon is public informaon which means it
not only lives in the government sector but in the private
sector and NGOs. The private sector, medical schemes, people who
produce drugs, sciensts, and universies who do research we
need a collaborave, collecve eort, which through public media
puts accurate informaon in the public domain in a way that enables
people to lead healthier lives.
Are journalists somemes swayed by companies sponsoring
research (with vested interests) using drug trial results to
push a story?
The best way for journalists not to be swayed by parcular
drug companies or providers of any healthcare services,
is to be crical about the informaon they get. Not that its notrelevant but it needs to be looked at by a second crical eye. You
need to get independent expert opinion, and also see what coverage
there is around the same issues. In that way you create a balanced
story without ignoring innovaons that could be interesng from a
parcular drug company.
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iphos love is rmly in electronic media. Aer graduang
from Rhodes University he found himself working for
non-prot media organisaons such as Health-e where he was
introduced to health journalism. It turned out to be a good move
for Sipho who won the Discovery Health Journalism Award for
Radio in 2012, followed by the 2013 Internaonal Womens Media
Foundaon HIV and Aids Invesgave Reporng Fellowship.
Experienced in online and TV journalism Sipho even has music
presenter on his CV aer a short snt with Kfms late night show,
followed by wring TV news at eNCA leading to his current job as
a reporter for SABC News.
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well-told radio story, built on narrave journalism, which
takes the listener into the hearts and minds of the subjects.
In his story (Young and living with HIV), Sipho Stuurman gave a
voice to young people living with HIV and the challenges they
face. Stuurmans story was a dierent take on the way HIV sgma
stories are told, giving us a glimpse into the lives of two young
HIV posive people. He did a commendable job in dealing with a
subject that sll remains sensive in South Africa.
S I P H O S E T H U S T U U R M A N | S A B C R A D I O
O U R N A L I S M
B E S T H E A LT H
A D I O
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S A B C R A D I O :Maternal
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D A R R E N T AY L O R | V O I C E O F A M E R I C A
O R E I G N
M E D I A
O U R N A L I S M :B E S T H E A LT H
P R O F I L E
ased in Johannesburg, Darren is the Africa Features
Correspondent for Voice of America radio.
He focuses parcularly on the connents struggles against highly
infecous diseases, including HIV and tuberculosis highlighng issues
oen unheard of outside Africa.
An area Darren parcularly enjoys, is wring stories on health workers
who are improving and saving lives against all odds, using descripve
wring and the sounds he records around him to take readers and
listeners on a journey into an issue.
Before working for VOA Darren reported for various internaonal
and South African media, including SABC, BBC, and Mail & Guardian.
J U D G E S C I T AT I O N
he Bulungula Incubator NGOs unorthodox method of bringing
health and hope to their far-ung HIV-ravaged community makes
for an unexpected, o-beat, and thought-provoking story. Making
innovave use of sound and characterisaon, Darren Taylor paints a
vivid sound picture of African community life for an American audience
that may have lile insight into the beliefs and issues that inuence HIV
infecon. While sensive to the ethical dilemmas around tesng and
sgma, the story sets the tone for a robust approach to looking for new
soluons to a seemingly insurmountable problem.
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M O V E W I T H A M I S S I O N : Fit, happy, healthy children develop into healthy, well-adjusted adults. The younger people startlooking aer their health through regular physical acvity and healthy eang, the beer it is for their long-term health and wellbeing.
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C O M I N G I N T O A
N E W E R A
O U R N A L I S M
ho would have thought they would ever receive the latest
news in just 140 characters? Or that the person on the
street would on occasion be geng the news out before leading news
agencies? Rapid technological change means that younger people,
especially, are turning to the internet for their news. Developing
viable digital strategies is becoming ever more urgent for media
organisaons.
Professor Harry Dugmore, the Director of the Discovery Centre for
Health Journalism at Rhodes University, shares a healthy dose of
opmism with a sidebar of scepcism on the future of South African
journalism. The biggest challenge for South African media is certainlydigital transformaon. The old newspaper/magazine adversing-centric
model is becoming less and less viable. We need to come up with new
ways of paying for well-researched, fair, in-depth journalism.
Talk to most journalists and editors and theyll look down their nose
at the term cizen journalism, but more and more, these eye witness
accounts of whats happening around us are becoming the norm.
Armed with a cellphone camera and a keyboard, rst-hand reports of
major events are increasing daily.
According to Dugmore, everybody having the ability to be an eye
witness and a reporter opens things up. It makes it much more
dicult for repressive, authoritarian regimes to try and control
things. Weve seen this in China where they have severe censorship
and online controls but even they cant keep a lid on everything.
But cizen journalism has its own dangers as well. Whose voices are
authenc, or whose are being manipulated by government or big
business? We have to hope ordinary people have enough common
sense to lter through all the compeng voices and arrive at a close
approximaon to the truth.
South Africa has one of the most advanced Constuons in the world,
which has ensured that since 1994, there has been substanal press
freedom. The Protecon of State Informaon Bill passed into law
by parliament in April 2013 is nevertheless a serious threat to this
freedom. Mostly as a result of passing this law, in the 2013 Reporters
without Borders Index of Press Freedom report, South Africa ranked
10 places lower (now 52ndout of 179 countries) in terms of these
vital freedoms.
In a recent statement Sanef (South African Naonal Editors Forum)
stated, South Africa remains a beacon of press freedom on the
African connent, but that status has come under real threat from
new legislave proposals, from hosle polical rhetoric and from the
conduct of some senior state ocials.
Freedom of the press in South Africa is of great concern to anybody
who is involved in the media, comments Dugmore. Recently
weve seen some of the overt legislave threat diminish a bit, but
there are newer and possibly more dangerous long-term threats to
press freedom.
So perhaps were going back to the Apartheid era days of advocacy
journalism, or journalism where a strong bias towards a parcular
world view becomes the norm. Ive always felt that advocacy
journalism is a bit of a dicult term because all journalists have a
point of view. Although we train young journalists to be fair and
balanced, theres always some kind of point that comes through.
In health journalism in parcular one has to always advocate for
good health, and be evidence-based with a compelling story to tell.
Just taking real care to do no harm even thats a form of advocacy
journalism, explains Dugmore.
Whichever way you look at it, journalism shapes opinion. We need
to be careful about not confusing the audience, and making
sure we do as lile harm as possible while sll giving out useful and
clear informaon.
Theres a lot of young talent bursng out of journalism schools
wanng to tell the full story to get to the boom of things. Im
really pleased that a high percentage of our students graduate and
go on to become ne journalists and excellent communicators. The
challenge for them and all of us is nding the business model going
forward that can support in-depth journalism in the digital age.
You dont become a journalist for the fame or the money. You do it
because there are stories that have to be told that can make a vital
dierence to peoples lives.
N O T S I N C E T H E I N V E N T I O N O F T H E P R I N T I N G P R E S S H A S T H E W R I T T E N W O R D
S E E N M O R E C H A N G E S . N E W S O R G A N I S A T I O N S A R O U N D T H E W O R L D H A V E
F A C E D T H E C H A L L E N G E O F C O M P E T I N G N O T O N L Y F O R N E W R E A D E R S B U T
E V E N H O L D I N G O N T O T H E I R E X I S T I N G , O F T E N A G E I N G P R I N T O R B R O A D C A S T
A U D I E N C E S . A D D F R E E D O M O F T H E P R E S S I N T O T H E M I X A N D Y O U H A V E T H E
S T AT E O F T H E M E D I A I N S O U T H A F R I C A
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s Editor of Leefstyl, the lifestyle secon of Beeld, Rie covers
many topics, but is parcularly interested in medical maers.
Her interest started while sll a journalism student at the University
of Pretoria, where she compiled the Media Scan newsleer for the
South African Medical Associaon. Two further degrees in media and
journalism led to her current posion working for Beeld, Die Burger,
and Volksblad.
Wring on a variety of topics from mental and physical health to
entrepreneurship, parenng, and children, puts Rie in the perfect
posion for wring on the area that aects her readers most health.
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iee Groblers succinct and snappy arcle Brein soos n
resiesmotor dispels the myth that ADHD (Aenon Decit and
Hyperacvity Disorder) only aects children. Her well-wrien arcle
draws aenon to the misdiagnosis of the condion and highlights
techniques for managing the symptoms of ADHD. The piece is well-
researched and provides a snapshot of what the disorder is and links
readers to further assistance.
R I T T E G R O B L E R | D I E B U R G E R
E A T U R E
I F E S T Y L EB E S T H E A LT H
LY D I A V A N D E R M E R W E
S A R I E :
Fokus op ADHD
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P R O F I L E
he Discovery Health Journalist of the Year in 2013, Mia started out
at the SABC as a reporter. Mia soon realised her passion lay in health
reporng, parcularly in teaching and mentoring young journalists in this eld.
Aer seng up the rst health journalism programme in both Kenya and
Washington for Internews Network, she returned to South Africa to train
SOWETO TV reporters, establishing a weekly health programme.
Today Mia is the founding director at the Mail & Guardians Health Journalism
Centre, Bhekisisa, as well as being the papers Health Editor.
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his is a gripping feature on an easily overlooked, small community-
based home for the mentally disabled where a handful of mentally
disabled people nd sanctuary from a world that seems to have no place
for them. Paents and caregivers are delicately observed and the feature
is wrien with exquisite aenon to detail. The piece (If they are raped so
what), is well-structured around themes that are fully developed. The story
leaves no avenue of inquiry unexplored as it tells of struggles to secure hope.
What nally shines through is the commitment of the home and its supporters
to facilitate a measure of dignity for their residents, giving them a chance to
have love and purpose, despite tremendous odds.
WINNER
M I A M A L A N | M A I L & G U A R D I A N
B E S T H E A LT H
A N D
O N S U M E R R E P O R T I N G
E AT U R E W R I T I N G
LY D I A V A N D E R M E R W E
S A R I E :Depressie
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S P R E A D I N G
T H E W O R D O N
E A L T H YI V I N G
A C C O R D I N G T O T H E L A T E S T S T A T I S T I C S A L M O S T H A L F O F S O U T H
A F R I C A N S O V E R T H E A G E O F 1 5 A R E O V E R W E I G H T O R O B E S E . A S A D A N D
U N N E C E S S A R Y S T A T I S T I C T H A T C A N B E A L T E R E D W I T H A F E W S I M P L EL I F E S T Y L E C H A N G E S . M O R E I M P O R T A N T L Y , T H E L A T E S T R E S E A R C H B Y T H E
W O R L D H E A L T H O R G A N I Z A T I O N H A S L I N K E D O B E S I T Y N O T J U S T T O T Y P E 2
D I A B E T E S A N D H E A R T D I S E A S E , B U T T O C A N C E R T O O .
Nossel reects that when he qualied in the mid-ninees there was
lile, if any, emphasis on prevenve medicine and lifestyle-related
illness in his medical training. We need to relook at the healthcare
delivery system and involve healthcare professionals in the decisions
that paents are making outside of consulng rooms.
We know how important a healthy lifestyle is, but the challenge
is changing peoples behaviour. No one is protected when it comes
to these illnesses. The colour of your skin, your socio-economic
status means nothing if you dont look aer your health youre at
risk. We need to diagnose these condions early on through cost-
eecve screening programmes, so that we help prevent the many
complicaons associated with lifestyle-related illnesses. Medicaon
is crical, but so are the choices around being physically acve, not
smoking, and following a healthier diet. Paents need assistance in
changing their behaviours.
temming the de of this pandemic may be as simple as changing
our lifestyles. Prevenon is beer than cure and more now than
ever, the media plays a key role in spreading the word. People need to
take responsibility for their health and above all understand the real
meaning of wellness. They need well-researched, informave, useful
informaon brought to them by journalists with a passion for changing
their audiences lives.
We know that globally chronic diseases of lifestyle have a major
impact. No ones immune. Were seeing big growth in the lower socio-
economic groups and what we call the mature populaon, of high
cholesterol, blood pressure, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. Its an
epidemic linked to lifestyle, explains Dr Craig Nossel, Head of
Vitality Wellness.
Over the last few decades we have seen a signicant shi in our
lifestyles we move less and we eat more, parcularly more sugar,
salt, and fat. Its become harder for us to make healthy choices,
because our environments make less desirable opons much easier
for us he adds.
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We all lead very busy lives, whether you are a senior execuve, a busy
house wife, or a call centre agent. Finding me in the day to exercise
or to prepare a healthy meal is not always easy. We dont oen
appreciate the long-term value of these choices, so we learn from the
behavioural economists how we need to nudge people and incenvise
them to make healthy choices today that will benet them in the years
to come.
People also need to nd things that they enjoy, possibly with family
and friends, which will make the acvies more sustainable. One such
iniave is the parkrun, which was started just over a year ago by
running legend Bruce Fordyce, with about 15 people at the Delta Park
bird sanctuary. Today, over 75 000 people walk, jog, or run 5kms in
over 30 park areas around the country at no cost. The reason its so
popular is the social interacon, not just the running. To make things
sustainable they need to be enjoyable. Its no dierent to following a
healthy diet. The noon that healthy food is tasteless or expensive is
wrong and we need to change that percepon. Its not about banning
certain foods but making good, balanced nutrious decisions.
If were talking about changing lifestyle percepons and habits we
also need to look at our children. Healthy kids make healthy adults
but sadly schools are not always inslling this when it comes to
exercise or eang. At school the focus is too oen around compeve
sport which results in many of the kids being le on the side of the
elds. We need to build a lifelong love of exercise. Schools should be
measured on how many of their learners are sll parcipang in some
form of sport a few years aer nishing school, as opposed to the
winning record of their rst team. It will be great to see kids playing
games and developing fundamental skills that will help them be
healthier later in life, enthuses Nossel.
We need to look at how we can help people make the best choices.
Some people are well informed and look aer themselves but the
majority of us nd it very dicult. We must look at whether we have a
posive or negave environment from a health perspecve, as well as
the broader environments where we spend our me
the workplace and school. Businesses and government should be
buying into this if they want a producve and healthy workforce.
S C H O O L S H A V E S I M I L A R
R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S ; H E A L T H Y
E A T I N G A N D B A N N I N G
S M O K I N G A R E P O L I C I E S T H A T
S H O U L D A P P L Y A R O U N D T H E
W O R K P L A C E A N D S C H O O L S .
T H E F A C T T H A T A N Y O N E
I S A L L O W E D T O S M O K E
O N S C H O O L G R O U N D S I S
U N A C C E P T A B L E B U T T H E R E
A R E C U R R E N T L Y N O L A W S T O
S A Y T E A C H E R S O R P A R E N T S
CANT SM O KE.
" AT T H E S A M E T I M E , T H E R E
I S A G R E A T O P P O R T U N I T Y
T O U S E T U C K S H O P S A S P A R T
O F N U T R I T I O N E D U C A T I O N
B Y P R O M O T I N G H E A L T H Y
E A T I N G . W E C A N S E N D O U T
T H E R I G H T M E S S A G E A N D H E L P
K I D S D E V E L O P G O O D C H O I C E S
A R O U N D W H A T T H E Y R E
B U Y I N G . "
W E V E S E E N W I T H T H E
V I T A L I T Y H E A L T H Y F O O D
B E N E F I T T H A T B Y L O W E R I N G
T H E C O S T O F H E A L T H Y F O O D ,
P E O P L E W I L L B U Y M O R E
H E A L T H Y O P T I O N S , B U T A L S O
L E S S O F T H E U N H E A L T H Y
O P T I O N S . T H E R E A R E
C E R T A I N L Y O P P O R T U N I T I E S
H E R E F O R G O V E R N M E N T A N D
B U S I N E S S T O W O R K T O G E T H E R
T O E N C O U R A G E T H E S E S O R T
O F C H A N G E S I N T H E C H O I C E S
C O N S U M E R S M A K E .
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P R O F E S S O R T A W A N A K U P EC O N V E N E R
eputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance, HR, and Transformaon) at Wits University,
Professor Kupes background is rmly in media, where he lectured in
journalism and media studies both in South Africa and overseas. As well as having
judged many media awards, Professor Kupe has also seen numerous young journalists
go through his doors, easily recognising talent when he sees it.
Professor Kupe holds Honours and Masters degrees in English and a Doctor of
Philosophy degree in Media Studies from the University of Oslo in Norway. He has
been a judge of a number of journalism and media awards including the Vodacom
Journalism of the Year Award (of which he was a founding judge), the MTN Women
in the Media Awards, the SADC Media Awards and Webber Wentzel Legal Journal
Journalist of the Year Award.
U D G E S R O F I L E S
A N N A - M A R I A L O M B A R D
nna-Maria has won three CNN African Journalist Awards and
is a former Discovery Health Journalist of the Year winner.
Anna-Maria is the current Editor and Lead Writer for Scratch, a
community newspaper, and has developed the television series; On
Call, which has been commissioned by DStv Mzansi Magic. She has been
covering the Oscar Pistorius trial from court and produced background
documentaries for Carte Blanches Oscar Pistorius Trial channel.
Anna-Maria is currently developing another two major television series;
one will focus on the development of internaonal criminal jusce and
the second on arsanal mining in the gold and planum sectors.
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D R N I C O L A J . C H R I S T O F I D E S
cademic co-ordinator for the Masters in Public Health at Wits
University, Nicolas interest lies in the social determinants of health
and social and behaviour change communicaon. Having worked on various
projects from tropical diseases at WHO to womens health and gender-based
violence, Nicola brings her extensive health background to these Awards.
Nicola holds a PhD from Emory University in the United States and a Masters
of Public Health.
S I K I M G A B A D E L I
former winner in the TV categories of the Telkom ICT Journalist
of the Year and Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year, Siki is
a familiar face for followers of SABCs Big Debate show. With a
background in business journalism, her insights add another dimension to
this years judging panel. She is currently the Business Editor at POWER FM.
Having worked at Summit TV, SABC, eTV and CNBC Africa, Siki is a sought-
aer MC and has facilitated panel discussions around the world including
the World Economic Forum on Africa.
P R O F E S S O R B A V E S H K A N A
s Head of the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence of Biomedical TB Research at Wits
University, Professor Bavesh Kanas research work on TB has seen him working
in the elds of research and academia both here and overseas. Aer obtaining his
PhD in Mycobacteriology from Wits, he went on to work at the Public Health Research
Instute in New Jersey and also spent me at Harvard Medical School. Today, he passes
on this wealth of knowledge to the post-graduate students he lectures and mentors.
A mul-award winner in the eld of science, Professor Kanas medical background is
invaluable to the judging of these Awards.
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