Lilian Dudley

Prof Lilian Dudley is a principal specialist in Public Health Medicine, Associate Professor and head of the Division of Community Health, and Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University. Her interests include developing teaching and research on health systems research and public health. Current research areas include quality of care for chronic diseases, including communicable chronic diseases of TB and HIV; human resources for health, in particular leadership and management, community based health workers and education of health professionals. She also has experience in conducting systematic reviews and knowledge translation in health systems research. She was recognised in 2007 as one of the Top 20 Influential Leaders in the South African health care sector by the SA Institute of Health Care Managers (SAIHCM). She was the CEO of Health Systems Trust (HST) from 2002-2007, a large national NGO established to support the transformation of the SA health system, with a particular focus on undertaking health systems research and implementing programmes to promote the delivery of equitable, effective and efficient health care. She was also the chairperson of the Epidemiological Society of SA, the Public Health Association of SA, the TB Alliance DOTS Support Association (TADSA), and served on the Board of HISP (Health Information Systems Programme), and the African Council for Sustainable Health Development (ACOSHED). Lilian was appointed by the Minister of Health to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ebola in 2014, and previously served on a national Public Health Standard Generating Body, and an advisory committee to the Provincial MEC for Health. She is a member of Council for Public Health Medicine, and Chairperson of Medical Management Division of Public Health Medicine, College of Medicine, South Africa.