South Africa's planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It's deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher in Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD Student, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD candidate in vertebrate palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Demography and Population Studies, Schools of Social Sciences and Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society , University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Sasha Frade is a PhD student, as well as an Associate Lecturer, in the Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand
