Board of Trustees

Professor Leslie London

Leslie London is Chair of Public Health Medicine in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He served as Head of School from 2007 to 2012. He heads the Division of Public Health Medicine and is an active in the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, in which he leads research in the areas of pesticide hazards and chemical neurotoxicity, farm worker occupational health, and occupational and environmental epidemiology. He also heads the School’s Health and Human Rights Programme which has a broad research and training mandate addressing health as a socio-economic right, and examining human rights and ethical issues in relation to the practice of occupational health professionals, including dual loyalty at the workplace. He has served on many committees dealing with ethics and human rights in research and professional contexts, has provided advice to the AIDS Law Project in test cases related to workplace discrimination involving HIV and is active in the People’s Health Movement South Africa. He was a member of the National Health Research Ethics Council for the Department of Health from 2006 to 2010. He serves on the Scientific Committees on Rural Health and on Neurotoxicology for the International Commission on Occupational Health, and coordinated the Africa Group for ICOH’s revision of its Ethical Code. As part of an international Working Group on Dual Loyalty, he and his collaborators developed an international guideline for the protection of patient rights in the context of high-risk closed institutions. He has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed international and national journals and 15 books or book chapters, and is an NRF-rated scientist in the B3 category. He has been PI on several large grants over the past 10 years, including funding from SIDA, NIH, EU and IDRC, raising in total more than ZAR 35 million in research funding whilst at UCT.Leslie London is Chair of Public Health Medicine in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town.

Ms Tshepiso Mokoena

Tshepiso Betty Mokoena Founder and Executive Director of TMFSA.org, based in South Africa has worked at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and South African Parliament as a South African Sign Language (SASL) Practitioner and a freelance SASL News Interpreter for ENCA South Africa. She holds a National Diploma in Translation and Interpreting specialized in Linguistics of South African Sign Language, which she obtained at the University of Witwatersrand. Subsequent to that transcribed and translated Deaf life stories of Gays and Lesbians in South Africa, commissioned by GALA (Gays and Lesbians Archives based at the University of Witwatersrand). She then furthered her studies at Regenesys Business School, completed Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management. In addition to that she obtained different advanced certificates in Project Management, Presentation skills and Desmond Tutu Women in Leadership program.

Ms Narima Panday

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Nisha Jacob

Dr Nisha Jacob is a public health physician and senior lecturer at the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town. She has worked in clinical, managerial and research settings in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces of South Africa. Her interests include health promotion, non-communicable diseases, HIV and public health education. She is passionate about advocating for deaf and hearing impaired communities.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.