Professor Flavia Senkubuge is a medical doctor, a specialist in public health medicine and a global public health advocate based at the University of Pretoria’s school of health systems and public health. Supporting policy with scientific evidence, Professor Senkubuge mobilizes people and resources to create, curate, make sense of and use knowledge to inform policymaking. Her special interest areas are Global Health diplomacy, Health policy and Management, Tobacco control and Health systems strengthening.  

She holds a Master of Medicine and PhD with Specialisation in Public Health Medicine from the University of Pretoria, where she’s currently the Deputy Dean Stakeholders at the Faculty of Health Sciences. She is the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine South Africa (CMSA), becoming the first black woman and only the third woman in the CMSA’s sixty-six (66) years to hold the position. 

Professor Senkubuge chaired the WHO/Afro region African Advisory Council on Research and Development (AACHRD), serves as president of Women in Global Health (WGH) South Africa and Vice-President of the African Federation of Public Health Association (AFPHA). She is a Fellow of the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellowship and was recognized as one of 50 Powerful Women in South Africa by the Mail & Guardian’s Power of Women in 2021. In 2022 she was recognized by Harvard Public Health as one of the 25 standout voices in African Public Health. She was elected to chair the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the World Congress on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) held in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. The WCTOH is one of the largest public health policy conferences in the world. A frequent contributor to global conversation on public health, she holds a Fellowship of the College of Public Health Medicine (FCPHM). Professor Senkubuge is the current chair of DACA’s Board of Directors.