The Nobel Prize, Implementing and Evaluating Interventions, Global Impact

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 The Nobel Prize, Implementing and Evaluating Interventions, Global Impact

A drink from the well of player welfare

 Sharief Hendricks has over 150 peer-reviewed publications with a Google h-index of 40, and has graduated over 50 postgraduate students (Honours, MSc and PhD) to date. He has been awarded the prestigious University of Cape Town Fellows Young Researcher Award (2019), a three- time finalist for the TW Kambule-NSTF Researcher Award (2020,2021,2022) (an award for South Africa’s top scientist) and recently awarded the South African Sports Medicine Association Lifetime Membership award. Sharief holds a European College of Sport Science Fellowship (FECSS) for significant contribution to the field, a Visiting Professorship at Leeds Beckett University (UK), and recently been awarded the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Senior Fellowship.

 He is a Past President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (the first non-physician to hold this position) and current Chair of Research and Science for the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee’s (SASCOC). He acts (or has acted) as a research consultant for World Rugby,  World Cricketer’s Associations, South African Cricketers’ Association, New Zealand Rugby Union, New Zealand Cricketers’ Association, and England National Rugby League and have lead or co-lead multi-national projects for these governing bodies.

 He currently a Senior Associate Editor for six major journals in the field including the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine and the European Journal of Sport Science.

 He is currently part of two professoriate fellowships – the South Africa Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Future Professors Programme Fellowship and the UCT Next Generation Professoriate Fellowship. Sharief also manages two science communication websites, the Health Science Reviews (primarily students) and RugbyScientists.com (to communicate the latest sport and exercise science research to coaches and practitioners).