Ms Tanja Naledi Gordon
Tanja Gordon is a PhD intern in the HSRC's Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division. She holds a master's degree in health economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2019). Gordon's master's degree focused on health inequalities and her PhD focus is on affordability and resource decision-making from the perspective of the health system.
Gordon was formerly a master's intern at the HSRC (2017-2019) before pursuing a joint PhD with the University of Bristol and the University of Cape Town in 2020. Since 2021, she has contributed to various research proposal write-ups and projects at the HSRC. She is currently working on a project that involves the comparative assessment of COVID-19 interventions and their performance during the pandemic. Her contribution to the project includes the evaluation of a selected government department's role, interventions, and the impact these interventions have had on the country.
Gordon is a third-year scholar on the University of Bristol ? University of Cape Town Cotutelle programme. She has contributed to two papers, as first author and co-author, respectively, co-authored a policy brief and has presented work based on her master's research at four conferences.
Feasibility study for a Socio-economic empowerment index
The purpose of the centralised SEEI will be to contribute to deeper debates on structural and systemic determinants of socio-economic empowerment as w....
e-Participation and Policy Modelling South Africa (e-PPMOSA)
To establish a South African platform for e-participation in policy making and modelling through a series of pilot projects. The pilot projects will h....
An assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of the selected support mechanisms implemented to mitigate and alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa
To assess: How have the selected support mechanisms performed in mitigating and alleviating the most severe impacts of Covid-19 and assisted the vic....