Christopher J Colvin Author of Evaluating Organization Development
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Christopher J Colvin

Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Cape Town

Christopher J Colvin is an Associate Professor in UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine head of the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He is co-Director of the South African Social Science and HIV (SASH) Programme. He is a medical anthropologist with a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Cape Town.

Biography

Christopher J Colvin is an Associate Professor in UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine where he heads the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences and is co-Director of the South African Social Science and HIV (SASH) Programme. He is a medical anthropologist with a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Cape Town. He also holds faculty appointments at Brown University and the University of Virginia.

Education

    PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, Univ. of Virginia, 2004
    MPH in Epidemiology, Univ. of Cape Town, 2007

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    His research interests include men, masculinity and HIV; trauma, memory and subjectivity; community health activism, health citizenship and governance; qualitative evidence synthesis and its role in emerging forms of global health policymaking and practice; the role of harmonised health information systems in integrating community-based and health system-based services; and new pedagogies to improve training in community-based health research methods.

Books

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 Featured Title - Traumatic Storytelling and Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa - 1st Edition book cover