The Advocacy Committee brings together paediatric specialists, nurses, social workers, allied health professionals, public health specialists, registrars, medical students, health managers and child health advocates with a common interest in children’s rights and child health. This includes representatives from Victoria, New Somerset, Mowbray and Red Cross Children’s Hospitals as well as partner organisations such as RXRadio, ChildSafe, PaedSoc and the Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative.
The Advocacy Committee Terms of Reference
Contact/For more information
The Advocacy Committee meets on the second Friday of each month. We welcome engagement and encourage you to raise issues by contacting Lori, or by making contact with individual committee members.
Lori Lake 082 558 0446 lori.lake@uct.ac.za |
Sa-eeda Chippendale Sa-eeda Chippendale@uct.ac.za |
Membership list
- Chair: Ms Lori Lake
- Chair elect: Sa-eeda Chippendale
Core working group
- Sr Jane Booth (Nursing)
- Ms Carla Brown (Social Work)
- Prof Michael Hendricks (Medical: Community and General Paediatrics)
- Dr Michelle Meiring (Medical: Palliative Care)
- Ms. Noluyolo Ngomani (RXRadio)
- Mr. Sameer Rahim (Physiotherapy)
- Dr Louis Reynolds (Professor [ret])
- Dr Jawaya Shea (Child Health Unit)
- Dr Gabriel Urgoiti (RXRadio)
- Dr Claire Procter (Medical: ICU)
- Dr Sa-eeda Chippendale (Medical: Neonatology)
- Dr Max Kroon (Medical: Neonatology)
- Dr Zakhira Sablay-Mukkadem (Medical: Adolescent Centre of Excellence)
- Dr Dave Le Roux (Medical: District Paediatrician)
- Dr Lizelle Jacobs (Postgraduate Diploma in Community Paediatrics)
- Dr Thandi de Wit (Medical: Victoria Hospital)
Contributing members
- Prof Minette Coetzee
- Dr Rowan Dunkley
- Dr Samah El-Boraei
- Ms Juliet Evans
- Prof Mignon McCulloch
- Dr Natasha Rhoda
- Prof Marion Jacobs
- Dr Shamiel Salie
- Dr Gill Schermbrucker
- A/Prof Maylene Shung King
- Dr Ben Van Stormbroek