Prof Lynn Hendricks lectures at and leads the Co-Creative Research for Equity and Transdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Hub at the Division of Health Systems and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU). She holds a joint PhD in social science and public health. Lynn is an extraordinary associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at KU Leuven and leads the Social and Environmental Determinants of Health transdisciplinary public square at SU. She is the founding director of the research consultancy Research Ambition and founding codirector of the NPO Hearts in Action. She is a fellow of Gilead Public Health as well as a fellow of Microsoft Society & AI. A long-standing previous executive member of the Psychological Society of South Africa, Lynn now serves as a divisional executive for the Division of Climate and Environmental Psychology. She has expertise in methods innovation, inclusive stakeholder engagement and knowledge translation. She has a keen interest in creative and co-productive research in communities and works with digital mediums as well as primary arts-based methods. Her work includes coproducing a local and international public art exhibition with the Iziko South African Museum and a community-led documentary about young women based in the Cape Flats who contracted HIV perinatally. Lynn has received the Springer Nature Inclusive Health Research Award and the Cochrane Thomas C Chalmers Award in recognition of her work.

 

“As a board member of the Africa Centre for HIV/Aids Management, I feel honoured by the opportunity to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the centre’s mission to build management and leadership capacity and skills in health management.”