Doctors for Tomorrow

Jannie Hugo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pretoria and is responsible for Community-Based Education. Before that he worked for 17 years at Medunsa. He is the chairperson of the committee on Family Medicine of the Medical and Dental Professions Board of South Africa, Director of the Rural Health Initiative (RHI) and a founder researcher of the Madibeng Centre for Research (MCR) in Brits. He lives with his family in the Magaliesberg near De Wildt.

His interest lies primarily in education in primary care, the management of primary care services, district and rural health, and the development of district learning centres. He has published extensively on consultation, district clinic health services, the management of district hospitals and training in primary care. He was the facilitator of an international project focusing on the development of family medicine training in South Africa and initiated the development of a mid-level medical worker programme for the country.

Lucie Allan is a pharmacist and health policy analyst based in Grahamstown, within South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. She has worked in both the retail pharmacy sector and academia. The focus of her academic work has included community pharmacy and medicines information. She has conducted research into pharmacy education and the infl uence of competing interest groups over pharmacy policy. Her research interests include the changing role of health care workers in the provision of primary health care in post-apartheid South Africa.