Professor Andrea Rother

Professor and Head of Division: Evironmental Health

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Professor Andrea Rother is an environmental health specialist with over 25 years of research, teaching and policy analysis experience.  Her focus areas include:

  •  chemical/pesticide risk management/governance,
  •  the impact of climate change on health,
  •  developing and evaluating risk communication mechanisms,
  •  understanding risk perceptions,
  •  children’s environmental health,
  •  human rights and environmental health,
  •  building a sustainable medical curriculum and environmental histories, 
  •  innovative capacity building.

Prof Rother is the convenor of UCT’s Postgraduate Diploma in Pesticide Risk Management and the Master of Public Health Environmental Health Track. Nationally she is a member of government’s Multi-stakeholder Committee on Chemicals Management and the South African Bureau of Standards Pesticide Technical Committee. Prof Rother is also a WHO expert advisor and current chair of the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management.