Flavia Senkubuge

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Flavia Senkubuge
Born1978or1979(age 44–45) [1]
Uganda [2]
Education Queenstown Girls High School
Alma mater University of Pretoria
Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
Edinburgh Business School
Known forPresident of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
Scientific career
Fields Tobacco control
InstitutionsUniversity of Pretoria
Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
Thesis Smoking-related health risk knowledge, and reactions to cigarette warning labels amongst South African adults  (2020)


Flavia Senkubuge (born 1978 or 1979) is a South African physician, professor of public health medicine, an advocate of global public health and the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. At age 39, she was the college's youngest ever president and the first Black woman to hold the position. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Early life and education

Senkubuge was raised in Lady Frere, then in the Transkei. She relocated to Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, where she attended Queenstown Girls High School to finish her high school education. As the 1996 Eastern Cape Matric of the year, she received the highest honor given in the region. [7] [3]

Research and career

She graduated with a PhD in public health, an MMed in public health medicine and an MB ChB from the University of Pretoria. Additionally, she has a Fellowship of the College of Public Health Medicine of the Colleges of Medicine South Africa and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University in the UK. [8] She serves as the Deputy Dean: Health Stakeholder Relations in the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pretoria. [8] In her capacity as Chair of the WHO/AFRO African Advisory Council on Research and Development, she gives advice to the WHO/AFRO regional director on issues pertaining to health research and development in Africa. [9] Senkubuge served as the president of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health. [10]

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