Affiliateship: 2019-2023
Cohort 4
Country (Nationality)
South Africa
Discipline
Medical & Health Sciences
Bio
Dukhi is a Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council in the Department of Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation.
She has over 12 years of experience in academia, lecturing Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology and Pathophysiology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban University of Technology and Rhodes University. Over the last decade, she has been involved in various academia roles involving curriculum development, undergraduate teaching paradigms, problem-based learning, and integration teaching. In 2015, she completed a PhD in Public Health from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
She is actively involved in research relating to Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health in South Africa and globally. She is an Executive Board of Directors for the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA), as well as a board member for the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, and International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). She has over ten publications relating to her research. She also serves as a reviewer for various national and international journals.
She is also currently working with various international collaborators on research relating obesity, nutrition, food systems, and school health promotion, with a focus on m-Health. In March 2018, she was one of five recipients of the Gro Brundtland Award in Taiwan for outstanding work in the field of public health and sustainable development.