Prof. Salome Maswime
Member of the transitional High-Level Council
Salome Maswime is a Professor and the Head of the Global Surgery Division at the University of Cape Town and the Director of UCT’s World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Integrated Clinical Care. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, a clinician scientist, a Global Health expert, and she teaches Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town.
She is a member of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics FIGO Committee on ethical aspects of Human Reproduction, and the United Nations Core Stillbirths Estimates Group. She currently serves as a member of the Lifebox Global Governance Council, and as the Chairperson of the Health Systems Trust Board in South Africa, and is the founder and President of the South African Clinician Scientists Society.
After qualifying as a Medical Doctor at UKZN, and specializing as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in South Africa, she completed an MMED and PhD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University of the Witwatersrand. She thereafter completed a Discovery Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Global Health, a Certificate in Leading Organizations and Change from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Diploma in project management, a certificate in Programme management from UCT, and a certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Harvard University.
She teaches and convenes undergraduate and postgraduate Global Surgery academic programmes in the Departments of Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Public Health; an on Surgical Leadership at the Graduate School of Business. She is the Chair of the University of the Future Project at UCT.
She has received numerous awards for her contribution to science and to healthcare, including the trailblazer and young achiever award by the President of South Africa in 2017; Mail and Guardians 50 most powerful women in South Africa in 2020; the NSTF SA MRC Clinician Scientist award for pioneering Global Surgery in Africa; and the Excellence in Health award from the Charlotte Mannya-Maxeke Institute.
