Dr Munya Saruchera is the director of the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management. He serves on the boards of the No-Name-Initiative Dialogue and Collective Leadership South Africa. He is also part of the Caregivers Empowerment Network Africa (CENet Africa), the Society for AIDS in Africa’s ICASA international steering committee, ICASA’s abstract mentorship committee, the Journal of Society for AIDS in Africa (J-SAA) planning committee and a professional associate at ACCERUS.

Munya lectures at the Africa Centre as well as the SU School for Public Leadership and the SU Faculty of AgriSciences. In addition, he supervises master’s and PhD students, conducts fundraising for research grants and undertakes research with various collaborators at SU and beyond. On a broader platform, Munya represents the Africa Centre on the research development programme managed by the SU Division for Research Development (DRD) called the Public Squares initiative, as well as the SUNRISE programme.

“Inclusive health management heralds a new chapter and opportunity for the Africa Centre to broaden its scope beyond HIV/Aids management to focus on issues of social justice. The key operative word is ‘inclusive’, which implies aspects like i) including people without health insurance cover who are excluded from the current public and private health systems, ii) disability, spirituality, African indigenous health knowledge systems, socio-eco-cultural, ecological and commercial determinants of health, iii) health systems beyond the Western one that defines and dominates the increasingly limiting global public health approaches. The centrality and importance of critical health management capacities and skills to strengthen health systems and allied professionals cannot be overemphasised, especially in our context – today medical professionals and clinicians need management training and qualifications more than ever to deliver universal health for all.

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