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Rural health activism over two decades: the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice 1992-2012
qualifications: MFamMed, FCFP(SA)
contribution: original concept, collected data, wrote the first draft, contributed to drafts, contributed to drafts
position: Professor, Director
South Africa
Professor Ian Couper is Director of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and Professor of Rural Health at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. A trained family physician, he spent nine years practising in a remote rural hospital in northern KwaZuluNatal province, and then 16 years working in primary care and health service development in rural North West province. He held the first chair of rural health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He has chaired both the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDASA) and the Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice (WONCA Rural).
qualifications: MBBS, MClSc, FRACGP, FACRRM
contribution: original concept
position: Dean
Canada
Rural Health education, workforce and services; family medicine/general practice.
qualifications: MD, FCFP(EM), MCISci, LLD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Dean
Canada
Dr James Rourke is Professor of Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He was Dean of Medicine at Memorial from 2004 to 2016. Previously, Dr Rourke was a rural family physician for 25 years in Goderich Ontario where he was the founding Director of the Southwestern Ontario Rural & Regional Medicine Program of the University of Western Ontario and Assistant Dean, Rural & Regional Medicine.
qualifications: BSc, MB BS, FRCGP
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Chair, Wonca Working Party on Rural Practice
United Kingdom
Chair RuralWonca Senior Lecturer in Global and Rural Health, Keele University, UK
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