Eleanor Preston-Whyte
Convenor of the HIV/AIDS Node
 
Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Professor Eleanor Preston-Whyte - PhD (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 1969) - formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, is a respected researcher in the field of Social Anthropology, with extensive experience in co-ordinating individual research projects as well as faculty and central academic research structures. Over the years, she has served on numerous national and international research and funding bodies, resulting in the development of a wide network of colleagues and potential partners upon whom HIVAN can draw for its work. During 2002, Professor Preston-Whyte was appointed as a Research Fellow: Department of Population Research and Migration Studies, at Princeton University, USA.
 
Prof Preston-Whyte has been instrumental in advancing the cause of multidisciplinary research, as well as in the promotion of new methodologies and modes of research enquiry and evaluation. She has worked extensively across the Social and Behavioural Sciences and actively sought collaboration with biomedical colleagues in the pursuit of problems for which integrated medical and social solutions are necessary, HIV/AIDS now being foremost among such challenges. Professor Preston-Whyte has published widely in her own field of Social Anthropology, with her specialist subjects spanning the Dynamics of Family and Kinship Structures, Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health, and more recently, HIV/AIDS and Population Studies.
 
Stephen Meir Tollman
Convenor of the Migration and Urbanization Node
 
Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Steve Tollman is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand where he heads the Health and Population Division and also directs the Agincourt Health and Population Research Unit, sited in South Africa's rural north-east (Bushbuckridge region), since its inception in 1992. The Agincourt Unit was recently awarded the status of a Medical Research Council/University Unit in Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research. Between 1990 and 1996 Tollman directed the University's Health Systems Development Unit, also based in Bushbuckridge. He played a leading role in the formation of the INDEPTH* Network, and currently serves as Chair of the INDEPTH Board and convenor of its working group in adult health and non-communicable disease. Tollman, a Rhodes Scholar, holds a Master of Medicine from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MA from Oxford University, UK, and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. He has published widely in the national and international literature.
*INDEPTH: International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in developing countries
 
Dudley B. Horner
Convenor of the Poverty and Inequality Node
 
Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Educated in social science at the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) and the University of Witwatersrand. Formerly was a senior research officer at the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg charged with research on demography, foreign affairs and labour issues and co compiler of the annual Survey of Race Relations. Since 1975 employed as research officer in and from 1980 to date as deputy director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. Has published as author, co author and contributor on labour market issues, trade unions and minimum wages. In 1984 he was involved in the second Carnegie Enquiry into Poverty and Development in South Africa for which he produced a socio-economic survey of the district of Calitzdorp. Between June 1992 and December 1994 he was closely involved with the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and was co ordinator of the production and editorial team for South African's Rich and Poor. Baseline Household Statistics. From March 1996 until December 1998 he chaired the (National) Wage Board in South Africa.
 
 
 
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