Prof. Heidi Eve Van Rooyen

TELEPHONE: 021 466 5009
EMAIL: hvanrooyen@hsrc.ac.za

Professor Heidi van Rooyen is the Group Executive of the Impact Centre and Acting Deputy CEO at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. Her 30-year professional career spans government, higher education, and the science council environments. Heidi is a social scientist and clinical psychologist holding an honorary professorship from the University of the Witwatersrand, a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and one of a few social scientists on the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19 in South Africa. She is an internationally recognised and accomplished scholar with a NRF B rating and over 140 publications, a Google Scholar index of 35 and a H-Index of 58 on Scopus. Her research has addressed HIV risks and vulnerabilities as well as the broader contexts and inequalities that shape this risk, the influence of sexual orientation and gender identity as social determinants of health, race and identity and the use of poetry/as/in/for research. Heidi is a certified life coach who balances the demands of leadership, publishing and grant writing with regular walks, poetry, and cold-water swimming.

Recent

Mainstreaming Engaged Research through the National System of Innovation

Towards Engaged Research Agenda for Impact in the NSI Although the HSRC and many other institutions have had a long-standing focus and history on enga....

The COVID-19 Wake-Up Call: Underscoring Longstanding Inequalities in the South African Health System BMGF

Taking Stock Almost three years into COVID, through a series of engagements with academics, civil society, policymakers, the health sector, and commu....

Advancing Poetic Inquiry in the Global South 8th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry

The Consortium on Advancing Poetic Inquiry in the Global South is a team of academics and practitioners with combined teaching, research, education, s....

Unrest related research in four wards in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

Over the past seven months, the VaxScenes Research Programme has implemented a mixed-methods, multiple case study project to explore South African???s....

The VaxScenes Research Programme: Phase 3

Over the past seven months, the VaxScenes Research Programme has implemented a mixed-methods, multiple case study project to explore South African???s....

Case Study on COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical measures on communities - DSI

Research on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa is scarce; most studies on this topic have been conducted in high-income countries (Cooper, Betsch et al....

Ward-based case studies of vaccine hesitancy and the COVID-19 response in South Africa

Research on vaccine hesitancy in South Africa is scarce; most studies on this topic have been conducted in high-income countries (Cooper, Betsch et al....

A multidimensional understanding of wellbeing to address poverty and inequality in South Africa: A historical, methodological and practical approach

We propose a medium to long term programme of research that develops a critical and multidimensional understanding of wellbeing to address poverty and....

NRF Incentive Funding Y2 2016/2017 - van Rooyen H

NRF incentive funding for rated researchers - Dr Heidi van Rooyen....

The Ibhayi Lengane pilot study

The primary aim of the pilot study is to test the acceptability and feasibility of the Ibhayi Lengane program as an add-on to existing DOH services. T....

Evaluation of the Skillz Street Plus project

The main aim of the evaluation is therefore to use qualitative research to assess the relative success of the project, which aimed to: Improve the a....

LMG 14-01 Management Sciences for Health (AIDSTAR II)

This project aims to collect, vet, organize, document and disseminate relevant research to support more evidence-driven programming for children orpha....

FBCT: The acceptability and feasibility of family-based home-based counseling and testing in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

This study is designed to conduct formative research to develop a model of counselling and testing for entire families in the home setting.....

Linkages - An evaluation of strategies to increase testing and linkages of HIV positive individuals to care and HIV negative men to male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa

An evaluation of strategies to increase testing and linkages of HIV positive individuals to care and HIV negative men to male circumcision in sub-Saha....

Relationships and engagement in AIDS care and treatment (REACT) Study

Qualitative study looking at ART use and access in HIV affected couples....

Couples in Context

Couples-based voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is a proven strategy to reduce the risk of HIV transmission between partners due to both partner....

Do-ART - ART Optimization: A prospective, interventional, randomized study of community-based ART initiation, delivery and monitoring in South Africa and Uganda

This study is a clinic community based project to explore effective, safe, acceptable, and cost-effective models of community-based ART initiation and....

Bringing South African Men to HCT and Care

This is a community based project develop evidence-based strategies needed to identify men with HIV and to link them to and maintain them in care. Thi....

Victim Satisfaction Survey

To assess the level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction by victims of crime and violence on the services provided by the Criminal Justice System (CJS) dep....

HDA Strategic Support to DSD HAST Strategic Plan Provincial Implementation

This is funded from USAID through PACT and HDA to enhance the capacity of the Department of Social Development of the South African Government in oper....

mHealth Innovation for HIV-MNCH community Health Workers in South Africa

To manage project activities in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa over the 3 year intervention development grant in order to develop and test the accepti....

HIV Self-Testing Feasibility and Usability Study

To gain an in-depth understanding of the concept and utility of emerging and existing HIV self-tests for the purpose of defining product requirements ....

Strategic Support: Draft HIV Prevention Strategy 2012-2016 (Department of Social Development)

The purpose of this assignment is to assist DSD in the finalization of their strategy. For the strategy to reach finalization several activities are c....

Home-based HIV Counselling and Testing and Facilitated Referral in Uganda and South Africa

PEPFAR supplement funds will provide an opportunity to pilot HBCT in KZN and evaluate HBCT uptake and systems for linkage to ART care, impact of ART a....

MP3 project-HIV treatment and prevention through home-based HIV counselling and testing and facilitated referral in KZN

This is a one year pilot study. Home-based counselling and testing (HBCT) will be evaluated in KZN as an intervention to massively increase knowledge ....