Biography

Welile Shasha is an independent consultant with a focus in access to public health care services, rural development, and the role of rural communities in strengthening the health system. He was very successful as founding Professor and Head of Department of Community Medicine at the University of Transkei, now called Walter Sisulu University from 1992 to 1996, after which he became the first Director of the first WHO Office in South Africa for anther 10 years. After that he became an independent consultant in public health. From 1990 - 1992 he was in the first group of Kellogg Fellows, focussing on buiding a health centre in his rural Village of Qamata in Chris Hani District, and the health centre has since been taken over by the Government. On 18 April 2013 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Public Health Medicine by the University of Kwazulu Natal in Durban in recognition of the work he has done in public health in Southern Africa.