Adjunct Professor Richard Cooke

After a early career in Finance and Marketing, I switched to Medicine, specialising as a family physician. After a decade in rural medicine in South Africa, I am now the Head of Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of the Witwatersrand and Director of the Wits Centre for Rural Health. I hold learnership and governance roles in the Faculty and School of Clinical Medicine, including as Chairperson of the Graduate Entry Medical Programmme Curriculum Committee, and as the Chairperson of the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Adler Museum of Medicine, and the Chairperson (Acting) of the Bachelor of Health Sciences Executive Advisory Committee. I am the Director of the Wits Nelson Mandela Fidel Castro (NMFC) Collaboration, serving on the NMFC National Department of Health Ministerial Task Team. I am an examiner for the Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians (FCFP). I held clinical leadership responsibility for various COVID19-related responses in the Johannesburg Metro Health District during the recent pandemic.