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Pretoria – The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) announced in a statement today that Dr Olive Shisana has been appointed as the new CEO with effect from 1 August 2005. She will succeed the current CEO, Dr Mark Orkin, whose term of office concludes at the end of July 2005. Dr Shisana presently heads the HSRC’s Research Programme on Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health. She is a former Director-General of the Department of Health and was Executive Director for Family and Community Health at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, as well as Professor of Health Systems Management and Policy at the Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA). She holds a D.Phil in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in the USA. “The HSRC will benefit from Dr Shisana’s scientific leadership and her impressive organisational and research experience. The Council looks forward to continuing and expanding the contribution of social science to transformation and development in South Africa and the rest of Africa. We wish her every success in her appointment as CEO,” said Professor Jakes Gerwel, chairperson of the HSRC Council. The HSRC has centres in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. It conducts applied, policy-relevant social research primarily for the public sector in South Africa and 30 other African countries. Outgoing CEO, Dr Mark Orkin said: “ Dr Shisana is a vigorous leader, a fine scientist, and is hugely committed to social research that makes a difference. The HSRC will go from strength to strength.”
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