Prof Hassan Mahomed, MBChB, MMed, PhD, works currently as a Public Health Medicine specialist at the Western Cape Government Dept of Health and Division of Health Systems and Public Health in the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch University. In the Department of Health, he provides technical support for planning, monitoring and evaluation, health systems reform, health information systems development and outbreak response. He has played a key role in co-ordinating the province’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic including the vaccine rollout. At Stellenbosch University, he teaches public health and runs a clinical trials module. He supervises both masters and PhD students.