Rachel Jewkes is Executive Scientist: Research Strategy in Office of the President and former Unit Director of the Gender and Health Unit of the South Africa Medical Research Council, based in Pretoria, South Africa.
She also serves as Director of th
What Works to Prevent Violence Global Programme as well as of th
Secretary of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative She has been a member of the National Council Against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa and the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board
and the WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV-AIDS (STAC-HIV).
Jewkes studied Medicine, receiving a Masters in Community Medicine (MSc) and a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, central London, and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine.
The inst ...
,
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
.
She is an Honorary Professor in the faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health at the
University of Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits ( or ). The university ...
, Johannesburg, and is an A-rated researcher with th
South African National Research Foundation Jewkes moved from England to South Africa in 1994.
Recent research
A UN-sponsored study coauthored by Jewkes on male violence against women in Asia and the Pacific reported that a high number of men admitted to sexual violence.
Survey researchers have questioned the plausibility of some of the findings of this study.
In 2013 Jewkes also published on depressive symptoms after sexual assault,
the epidemiology of child homicides
and intimate femicide-suicide.
Publications
Sexual violence
*
*
*
*
Homicide and femicide
*
*
Women's health
*
*
Pdf.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jewkes, Rachel
Living people
South African women scientists
21st-century women scientists
South African public health doctors
Alumni of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women public health doctors