Dr Zamasomi Luvuno (centre) with her supervisors, Professor Gugu Mchunu (left) and Professor Busi Ncama.
Dr Kgothatso E Machaba.
Professor Fikile Mtshali with her student Dr Claudine Muraranenza.UKZN Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Public Health, Professor Fikile Mtshali has supervised six PhD candidates this year.
Dr Zulfiah Mohamed Moosa.
Dr Phumzile Nomfundo Ngema.
Dr Velisha Perumal-Pillay.Access to medicines in South Africa may be improved by strengthening the overall quality management for public and private sectors of health care and by including public opinion in policy development, a study conducted by UKZN PhD graduate Dr Velisha Perumal-Pillay has found.
Dr Kim Coutts (centre) with her supervisors Professor Mershen Pillay (left) and Professor Kitty Uys.I hope to change policies and guidelines around what speech therapists do at the bedside, says Health Sciences PhD graduate, Dr Kim Coutts.
Dr Anushka Naidoo.The global burden of tuberculosis (TB) - one of the leading causes of death worldwide - has reached crisis proportions, says Pharmacology PhD graduate Dr Anushka Naidoo, a senior researcher at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).
Dr Khine Swe Swe.
Dr Marissa Balmith.
Dr Nomasomi Bomela and her supervisor Petra Brysiewicz.
Dr Gugulethu Mzobe with her family.Doctor of Philosophy in Health Science (Medical Microbiology) graduate, Dr Gugulethu Mzobe, says a very important lesson she learned during her intensive studies was the need for perseverance.
Dr Dhaneshree Naidoo with her parents and sister.
Dr Carmen Rennie.The anatomy of the paranasal air sinuses (PAS) - one of the most complex and variable areas of the human body – was the subject of doctoral research by Dr Carmen Rennie who obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Sciences.
Dr Deshini Naidoo with her parents.Occupational Therapy (OT) lecturer Dr Deshini Naidoo researched the role of OT at a primary healthcare (PHC) level in KwaZulu-Natal for her PhD.
Dr Samantha Ramkisson with her supervisor Professor Basil Pillay.Patients with diabetes need psychological support to cope with the disease, according to a PhD study by Clinical Psychologist Dr Samantha Ramkisson.
Dr Zeynab Fakhar.An Iranian national Dr Zeynab Fakhar graduated from UKZN with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry following a computational mechanistic and modelling study, which provided a detailed insight into the functional and structural features of important mycobaterium tuberculosis (TB) targets.
