Susan Goldstein

Prof. Susan Goldstein is a public health specialist and Director of the South African Medical Research Council /WITS Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA. She is medically qualified and specialised in Community Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, and has 30 years of experience in public health research, health promotion and health communication.

Prof. Goldstein has published widely in public health and has presented papers at many national and international conferences. She serves on the Independent Monitoring Board for the Global Eradication of Polio. She lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health, and on the board of the Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance South Africa.

She has a particular interest in the prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, with a focus on the social and commercial determinants of health, equity and ethics in health service provision.

She previously worked at Soul City Institute, where she developed television, radio, print and social mobilisation interventions for adults and children. She focused on the evaluation of the impact of Soul City and of health communication in general. As an individual, she has always been concerned with social justice and was a founder editor of Critical Health as well as an active member of the NAMDA emergency medical services, an active member of the Progressive Primary Health Care Network and a board member of the PPASA.