Rate My Professor Salome Maswime

Professor Salome Maswime is a Professor and Head of the Global Surgery Division in the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Director of the University of Cape Town’s World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Integrated Clinical Care. She serves as President of the South African Clinician Scientists Society and Chair of the University of the Future Project at the University of Cape Town. Maswime qualified as a medical doctor with an MBChB from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and completed a Fellowship of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of South Africa, a Master of Medicine, and a PhD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She undertook a Discovery Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School focused on global health, along with certificates in leading organizations and change from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, programme management from the University of Cape Town, and higher education teaching from Harvard University.

Maswime previously lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand and worked for approximately ten years at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg. Her research focuses on global surgery and maternal health, with particular contributions on caesarean sections. She teaches and convenes undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in global surgery and surgical leadership. Maswime has received the Trailblazer and Young Achiever Award from the President of South Africa in 2017, recognition as one of Mail & Guardian’s 50 most powerful women in South Africa in 2020, the NSTF-SA MRC Clinician Scientist Award for pioneering global surgery in Africa, and the Excellence in Health Award from the Charlotte Mannya-Maxeke Institute. She advises the World Health Organization and holds roles including membership in the FIGO Committee on ethical aspects of human reproduction and the Lifebox Global Governance Council.