Health Promotion 

Professor. Anna Meyer-Weitz

Position: Professor

Discipline: Psychology

Phone: 031 260 7618

Email: meyerweitza@ukzn.ac.za

Campus: Howard College

Office Address: TB Davies Extension Room 02-024

 

Degrees Held

• B.A. University of South Africa

• Honours University of South Africa

• Masters (Cum Laude) University of South Africa

• Master of Social Science in Industrial Psychology (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

• Ph.D. Health Promotion and Education, University of Maastrict in the Netherlands

 

Research Interests:

• My research interests relate to general Health and Wellbeing with a focus on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing and Organisation Health, Well-being and Safety.

 

Teaching Interests:

• Health Promotion, Health Psychology, Organisational Health and Wellbeing, Planning and Evaluation of Health and related Interventions as well as Research Methodology.

 

Community Involvement:

• Youth Leadership Development, Refugee Health, Adolescent health risk

 

Teaching Expertise:

• Theoretical Foundations of Human Behaviour for Health and Wellbeing; Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Health Related Interventions.

 

Student Supervision:

• I have supervised both Masters and Ph.D. students in the broad areas of Health and Well-being.

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Dr. Olagoke Akintola

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Position: Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Psychology

Phone: 031 260 7426

Email: akintolao@ukzn.ac.za

Campus: Howard College Campus

Office Address: TB Davies Extension Room 02-023

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Degrees Held

• B.sc., 

• MBA, 

• MPH, 

• PhD

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Research Interests

• Global public health

• Health policy and systems

• Knowledge translation and uptake

• Primary and community health care

• Human resources for health

• Political and social economy of community health care

• Health promotion and education, and school health

• Health psychology & health behaviour

 

Teaching Interests

• Health Promotion

• Community Health

• Public Health

• Global Health

• Health Psychology

• Research Methods

• Ethnography

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Community Involvement

• Community Outreach Centre, St Mary’s Hospital, Marianhill, Liberty for Youth, Hamilton, ON, Canada, International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Nebraska, USA.

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Student Supervision

• Supervised Honours, Master’s and Ph.D. students in the broad areas of Health, Community Development and Ideology.

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Professor. Yvonne Sliep

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Position: Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Psychology

Phone: 082 498 9343

Email: sliepy@ukzn.ac.za

Campus: Howard College Campus

Office Address: N/A

 

Degrees Held

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

 

Summary: 

• Prof. Yvonne Sliep is a critical community health specialist and holds an honorary research position in the School of Applied Human Sciences, University Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN). She is an international consultant and has done extensive work in facilitating collective healing within war-traumatised countries using Narrative Theatre to strengthen social fabric. Her teaching specialisation is working with life stories on a post-graduate level to increase contextual reflexivity.

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• International Consultant *Collective Healing *Narrative Therapy & Research * Critical Community Psychology at UKZN *Narrative Foundation *Peace building from below *Narrative Research *Primary Health Care *Enneagram Facilitator *Extended work experience in Fragile States/ Post conflict or Transition situation

 

Teaching Expertise:

• Psychology

• Psychosocial trainer

• Critical Community Psychology

• Higher Education

• Working with Life stories

• Teaching

• Qualitative Research

• Lecturing

• Personal Development

• Research

• Change Management

• Executive Coaching

• Coaching

• Leadership Development

• Blogging

• Enneagram facilitator

• Domestic Violence Frameworks

• Narrative Theatre

• Poetic Inquiry

• Primary Health Care

• Workshop Facilitation

• E-Learning

• Nonprofits

• Curriculum Design

• Psychotherapy

• University Teaching

• Workshop Facilitation

• Program Evaluation

• Public Speaking