Prof ME (Marian) Jacobs

Prof Marian Jacobs retired as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town in 2012 and holds the position of Emeritus Professor, Paediatrics and Child Health at that institution. Previous positions of employment include: Professor of Child Health and Director of the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town, where she was also employed as a community paediatrician in a joint position with the Provincial Health Department, and earlier, as a community (public) health lecturer and specialist. Her global experience includes service as Chair of the Boards of governance of the Medical Research Council in South Africa; the Centre for Health Research (ICDDRB) in Bangladesh; the Council for Health Research and Development (COHRED) in Geneva, Switzerland; and the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

Marian has served as convenor and a member of the scientific committee of many national and international scientific congresses in the global health arena and has also co-authored a number of key publications over the course of her academic career. She currently chairs the Advisory Committee of the Academy for Leadership and Management in Healthcare in the National Department of Health, serves as a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the World Health Organisation’s Maternal, New-born Child and Adolescent Committee; and is Advisor to both the Global Mental Health Platform of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, and the Doris Duke African Health Initiative.