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WBS Leadership DialoguesWits Business School presents its first lecture, titled: Covid-19 Vaccines – Challenges and Opportunities, in its Leadership Dialogues series.
Daily Maverick Vaccine Webinar SeriesUnderstanding the latest developments in SA’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout with Professors Shabir Madhi and Glenda Gray in conversation with Mark Heywood from Maverick Citizen.
Variations to vaccinesThe Sabinet and Wits University Press scientific update on the COVID-19 vaccine programme in South Africa.
Blueprint for the future of testing labs in AfricaWATCH as Professor Wendy Stevens details the extraordinary efforts of her team to upscale Covid testing.
Miss Universe Zozi Tunzi
Dean of Student Affairs’ Leadership Conversations The Dean of Student Affairs' Leadership Conversations webinar series featuring inspirational leaders from different sectors.
Pandemic Pangolin Series
Pandemic Pangolins: Systems, Science and Society Inspired by the image, characteristics and survival story of the Cape Pangolin, whose close relatives are found across the globe, this webinar series seeks to unpack the interconnectedness of health, humanities, environment and science, through a lens of systems-thinking.
Governing intimacies
Governing intimacies Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Governing Intimacies is a five-year, multi-institutional and multi-locational research project located in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It intends to build new scholarship and a new generation of scholars on gender and sexuality in India and East and South Africa.
The Inside Track: A Special Covid-19 Update​​​​​​​In an exclusive Inside Track webinar, Maverick Citizen Editor Mark Heywood and world-respected vaccinologist Professor Shabir Madhi will look at the unexpected suspension of the Ox1Cov-19 Vaccine VIDA-Trial, the possible explanations behind South Africa’s reported low death rate, whether it’s time the borders are opened and what we have understood so far about Covid-19, the virus that’s done all the damage.
Inequality and IndebtednessThe South African Research Chair in Equality, Law and Social Justice, the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), and the Mandela Institute, a Centre within the School of Law, of the University of the Witwatersrand hosted the third webinar in the series addressing critical issues of “Law, policy and inequality” titled ‘Inequality and Indebtedness’.
Wits Journalism Midweek Webinar series
Wits Journalism Midweek Webinar series #MidweekWebinars is a series that tackles pertinent questions around journalism and reporting on Covid-19.
DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development Webinar Series
DSI-NRF CoE in Human Development Webinar Series "Left out of the conversation: the effects of this time on optimal human development" is presented weekly to investigate how Covid-19 will shape a new research agenda on its disruptions of child development, food security, public health priorities, socio-economic progress, and the environment.
Media and journalism ©Suleiman Kova
The impact of Covid-19 on journalism Wits Journalism's #MidweeWebinar looks at all aspects of how Covid-19 is shaping journalism and the media in South Africa and across the globe, from fact checking and reporting on the crisis to the direct impact on media companies.
Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management's Covid-19 Webinar Series
Covid-19 CLM Webinars A webinar series by academics in the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management on various aspects related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The Inside Track - A Special Covid-19 webinar discussionMaverick Citizen editor, Mark Heywood in conversation with Professor Shabir Madhi, professor of Vaccinology at Wits University as they take a critical look at the progress and the plan two months into the three month ‘State of Disaster’.
The Inside Track - The Race For The VaccineProfessor Shabir Madhi, the vaccinologist leading the charge in South Africa's new Covid-19 vaccine trial and Wits Professor Helen Rees GCOB, OBE, SA chairperson of SAHPRA and a regional and global expert on vaccine development and programmes.
5th ASSAf Presidential Roundtable
The ASSAf Presidential Roundtables on Science, Scholarship and Society ‘Technology and the Future of Higher Education’ - A dialogue on the future of universities in a post COVID-19 world. Wits' Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic, Professor Ruksana Osman, participated in this discussion on the future of universities in a post-COVID-19 world.
A webinar and podcast series from the Wits Institute for Sport and Health (WISH).
How to stay healthy during lockdown A webinar series from the Wits Institute for Sport and Health (WISH).