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qualifications: MBBCH, MMed(FamMed), PhD
position: Head of Department
South Africa
Bernhard Gaede is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of Department in Family Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He previously was the director of the Centre for Rural Health at the same University. He trained as a family physician and worked for more than a decade in rural settings in South Africa with a wide scope of clinical and organizational experience including HIV medicine, primary health care and the expanded scope of practice in rural district level services. He has also been actively involved in the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa, the Rural Health Advocacy Project. Areas of interest and research have included health care system, community-level care (including home-based care and traditional healers), human rights and medical anthropology. Recent interests include health professions education and particularly the expansion of the rural teaching platform.
Articles contributed to by this person
Original Research 4 February 2016
Doctors as street-level bureaucrats in a rural hospital in South Africa
Original Research 4 December 2006
Limitations to practising holistically in the public sector in a rural sub-district in South Africa
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