Congratulations to Cdes Sheila and Mosidi!
Amaaaandla! South African Ministry of Health Statement, 5 November 2009 Appointment of Ministerial Advisory Committee on the National Health Insurance On the 11th of September 2009, I published a notice establishing an NHI Ministerial Advisory Committee which would provide advice on the development of policy, legislation and the implementation of a National Health Insurance. Today I am very pleased to announce the appointment of members of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on National Health Insurance, in line with the National Health Act, 2004 and as stated in the Government Gazette of 11 September 2009. The Ministerial Advisory Committee will advise the Minister on aspects of the National Health Insurance Policy, to enrich the process on policy and legislation development and the implementation plan for the NHI system. The Ministerial Advisory Committee will listen to the comments made by the public on the White Paper on National Health Insurance and will advise the Ministry on what to include in the final NHI implementation plan. The draft White Paper on the National Health Insurance will be released for public comment in due course. The Advisory Committee is made up of individuals with a cross-section of skills and expertise relevant to the NHI policy. The names and short curriculum vitae of the appointed members are as follows: 1.
Dr Olive
Shisana, CEO of the Human
Science Research
Council (HSRC), who chaired the ANC Technical Task Team on National
Health
Insurance, has been appointed to also chair the Advisory Committee. She
previously chaired the Committee that produced on the plan on Universal
Access
to Primary Health Care, whose recommendations formed the basis for the
introduction of universal access to primary health care in public
health
facilities in 1996.
Shisana, who said that she
will remain in her
post at the HSRC, served as Director-General of Health in the first
democratic
government from 1994 onwards and later as Executive Director at the
World
Health Organization (WHO), responsible for Family and Community Health. 2.
Professor
Ephraim Mokgokong, retired
Chancellor for the 3.
Professor
Diane McIntyre, the founder of
the Health
Economics Unit at 4.
Ms Shirley
Mabusela is a social worker by
training with
extensive experience in the field of children’s rights. She is
presently part
of the team involved in the process towards the building of a highly
specialised unit Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital. 5.
Mr Mark
Claassen is an actuary and the
Director of
the Actuarial and Insurance Solutions (AIMS) practice of Price
Waterhouse
Coopers (PWC) in 6.
Ms Sheila
Barsel has 39 years experience
in the area
of policy development and implementation, strategic and operational
management,
monitoring and evaluation, people and human resource management and
administration in both the private and public sectors. She was
previously the
deputy director in the Western Cape Department of Health, responsible
for
skills development. 7.
Mr Mark
Heywood is the executive
director of the
AIDS Law Project (ALP) since 1994; deputy chair of the South African
National
AIDS Council (SANAC); a member of the Secretariat and an Executive
member of
the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC); and a board member of the Amandla
AIDS
Advisory Trust. 8.
Professor
William Pick is professor
emeritus at the
University of the Witwatersrand, where he was the head of the 9.
Mr Solly
Suleman, a pharmacist who
graduated from
the 10.
Ms Mosidi
Maboye has extensive experience
in nursing
and in labour-related matters. She is assistant theatre complex manager
at the 11.
Mr Kuben
Pillay has 28 years of
experience within
the pharmaceutical industry, where he worked in areas such as research
and
development, production, and business operations. He is currently an
executive
of Adcock Ingram, responsible for public sector business and the
anti-retroviral business. 12.
Mr Roly
Buys has extensive experience in
the
medical schemes industry and the private hospital sector. He joined the
private
hospital group MediClinic in 1998, where he is director for Funder
Relations
and Contracting. 13.
Dr Norman
Mabasa chairs the National
Convention on
Dispensing (NCD). He is chairperson of the board and a member of the
executive
committee of the South African Medical Association (SAMA). He sits on
the board
of the South African Medical & Dental Practitioners (SAMDP), and
has vast
experience as a general practitioner in private practice. 14.
Dr Debbie
Pearmain is the legal advisor to
the Board
of Healthcare Funders (BHF). She was previously employed as head of the
legal
unit at the National Department of Health and has experience drafting
public
health legislation. 15.
Dr
Humphrey Zokufa is a pharmacist
and the CEO of BHF.
He is the previous Registrar of the Medicines Control Council (MCC) and
chief
director for the Pharmaceutical Policy & Planning in the National
Department
of Health. 16.
Dr Charles
Hongoro is a health economist
and research
director at the Human Sciences Research Council, and professor
extraordinaire
research at Tshwane University of Technology in the Department of
Environmental
Health. He has over 19 years of experience working in public health
policy and
systems research. 17.
Ms Baby
Tyawa is the deputy CEO for
Strategy and
Content Management at the Government Communication and Information
System
(GCIS). She served as an intern psychologist at the Counselling and
Careers
Unit at 18.
Mr Sobantu
Ndlangalavu is employed by the
South African Revenue
Services (SARS) and is responsible for tax management and
administration, and
for tax collection. 19.
Major
General Mokgethi Radebe is a
general practitioner by
profession, and has vast experience in the areas of management of the
military
health services and of general public sector management through the
Department
of Defence. 20.
Dr Mark
Blecher, Director of Social
Services in
National Treasury, Cape Town has gained experience in public sector
management,
health finance planning and management and general public sector
management
through employment at provincial and national government levels. 21.
Dr Yogan
Pillay is the deputy
director-general in
the National Department of Health, responsible for key healthcare
programmes,
including HIV/AIDS, TB, and maternal and child health. He has extensive
experience in strategic planning. 22.
Dr Keith
Shongwe is a deputy
director–general in the
Department of Communications, ICT International Affairs & Trade.
His area
of focus is in the field of information technology and services. He
completed
his tertiary education at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. International experts on the Committee are the following: 23.
Dr Joseph
Kutzin is affiliated to the WHO
and the
Department of Economics Boston University Boston, Massachusetts in the For more information
please contact Fidel Hadebe on 012 312-0663 or 079 517-3333
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