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EXPERT SOURCES MEDIA ALERT: QUOTE THIS WOMAN+

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VACCINES
Associate Prof Glenda Davison (Cape Town)
Davison is head of the biomedical sciences at CPUT and an honorary senior lecturer at UCT. She is a qualified medical technologist and medical scientist. Before she embarked on an academic career, Davison was employed as lab manager at the national health laboratory service.
Media tags: medical laboratory testing, higher education in health science, laboratory haematology, cancer biology, immunology
Covid-19: the vaccine and different strains of Covid-19, Covid-19 testing, blood groups, laboratory services in Africa, the virus and immunity
Contact details: davisong@cput.ac.za

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RENTAL TRENDS
Michelle Dickens (Jhb) new on the database
Dickens is director and co-founder of Tenant Profile Network Credit Bureau, one of the world's first tenant payment behaviour credit bureaus. They have 20 year’s worth of empirical data, building a history of tenant payment behaviour that is used countrywide to support and drive housing decisions and strategy.
Media tags: property, real estate trends, data on tenants, rent payments, vacancies
Covid-19: how this, and changing regulations impact the real estate sector
Contact details: michelle@tpn.co.za

3.

WHISTLEBLOWING
Dr Claudelle von Eck (Jhb) new on the database
Von Eck is a consultant and experienced non-executive director focusing on whistle-blower support, ethics, leadership, and governance. She was CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa for 10 years, and is a fellow at the Institute of Directors in South Africa.
Media tags: governance, leadership, ethics, organisational culture, internal auditing, whistle-blowing
Contact details: claudelle@braveinflexions.com

4.

MIGRANCY
Thandeka Chauke (Jhb) new on the database
Chauke heads the Statelessness project at Lawyers for Human Rights, offering direct legal assistance, strategic litigation, research and advocacy for vulnerable groups (such as women and children) affected by statelessness.
Media tags: statelessness, access to citizenship/nationality, access to birth registration
Covid-19: effect on stateless persons
Contact details: thandekac@lhr.org.za

5.

MALARIA
Dr Jaishree Raman (Jhb) new on the database
Raman is principal medical scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and heads SA's national surveillance programme for antimalarial drug and diagnostic resistance. As part of the SA Malaria Elimination Committee and as a member of regional malaria initiatives like Elimination 8 and PDNA, she assists building sustainable genomic capacity in Africa.
Media tags: malaria: elimination, case management, control, treatment, diagnosis, genomics, antimalarial drug resistance
Covid-19: The impact on malaria control and the impact on research in South Africa / Africa
Contact details: jaishreer@nicd.ac.za

6.

TRUMP
Associate Prof Nicky Falkof (Jhb)
Nicky Falkof is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at Wits University. Her research focuses on race and anxiety in the urban global south. She is the author of 'The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Moral Panic in Late Apartheid South Africa' and co-editor of 'Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City'. Her interest in who politics is played out for the benefit of mass media (political theatre) extends to Western exceptionalism and political spectacle across the global stage.
Media tags: white racism, fear and anxiety in the media, popular culture, Trump: white supremacy, political theatre, spectacle, Western exceptionalism, how the far right meets the far left
Covid-19: fear, anxiety and mass panic - how they are fuelled by media, urban legends, popular culture and social realities
Contact details: nicky.falkof@wits.ac.za

7.

SCHOOLS
Professor Carin Runciman (Jhb)
Professor Runciman is a sociologist who specializes in the analysis of working-class mobilisation with a particular focus on community protests and precarious work. Prof Runciman is an Associate professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, and is part of their Centre for Social Change. Recently, alongside the Development, Capable and Ethical State of the Human Sciences Research Council, Prof Runciman has presented findings from the third Covid-19 Democracy survey: 53% of adults think schools should not re-open until the current situation with Covid-19 improves.
Media tags: precarious work, temporary employment, protest and strikes, voting and non-voting in South Africa, relations between civil society and the South African state
Covid-19: holes in the Covid-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme, the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), perceptions about schools opening during covid
Contact details: crunciman@uj.ac.za

8.

IVERMECTIN / VACCINES
Neelaveni Padayachee (Jhb)
Padayachee is a lecturer of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Witwatersrand. Her skill set spans academic, community and hospital pharmacy. Her interests are in pharmacovigilance (the practice of monitoring the effects of medical drugs after they have been licensed for use, especially in order to identify and evaluate previously unreported adverse reactions), drug supply management, rational drug use, drug utilisation, procurement principles, distribution, auditing and clinical skills.
Media tags: drug safety, rational drug use, over-the-counter drug use
Covid-19: effects of Covid-19 pandemic, popular myths around Covid-19, vaccine safety, ivermectin
Contact details: neelaveni.padayachee@wits.ac.za

9.

COVID
During December, women's lands rights activist, Ngonyama trust commentator, international human rights award winner, and QW+ database member Sizani Ngubane died of Covid-19 complications. We mourn her passing and our love goes to her family and colleagues at this time, especially while the circumstances surrounding her treatment and death are still being looked into.

Our love and strength to all media workers who have been infected by Covid-19, and to the families and colleagues of those whose lives have been lost.

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CONTACTS
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