Dr. Sue Goldstein

Dr Sue Goldstein is a medical doctor who specialised in Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. She worked in primary health care in Alexandra and Soweto for 10 years prior to specialising. She then became interested in health communication and health promotion and has worked as Community Education Manager at the Johannesburg City Council and at Soul City: Institute for Health and Development Communication since 1995. She has co-authored a book on Health Promotion in South Africa, and taught Health Promotion and research over many years as an honorary lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria. She has also been an external examiner for the University of the Cape Town. She also has vast experience in communication around AIDS, having worked with both the government “Beyond Awareness” campaigns and the “Khomanani” campaigns, as well as in communicating with children, though the development of the Soul Buddyz vehicle, the Soul City vehicle and the Soul Buddyz Club, the OneLove, Phuza Wize and Rise campaigns. As an individual she has always been concerned with social justice and was a founder editor of Critical Health as well as an active member of the NAMDA emergency medical services, an active member of the Progressive Primary Health Care Network and a board member of the PPASA. Dr Goldstein has presented papers at many National and International conference