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These social entrepreneurs are advancing health equity in Sub-Saharan Africa
COVID-era digital technologies are poised to take hold in Africa, but barriers remain. Enter social entrepreneurs, intent on advancing health equity.
Katusha de Villiers
Katusha de Villiers leads the Bertha Centre’s health focused work, while also supporting project work within the education, youth development, systems innovation, and innovative finance areas at the Centre. She leads strategic health projects across the African continent and the global South with partners such as the Social Innovation in Health Initiative, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, the Bayer Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and the World Economic Forum. In addition to researching, publishing, and presenting on health systems integration and the role of social innovators in health in addressing health equity issues, she teaches master classes on health systems innovation on the UCT Graduate School of Business’s MBA and MPhil, for UCT’s Executive Education course on Global Surgery, as well as for the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo.
Prior to joining the Bertha Centre, she was a management consultant with experience working on multiple payer, provider, and pharma/life sciences projects across the American healthcare system, with a specific focus on the peri-operative continuum of care. Katusha has a Masters in Health Systems Administration from Xavier University, as well a law degree from the University of Kentucky Law School, and additional qualifications in project management and Lean Six Sigma.
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