The Campaign for Free Expression (CFE) invites you to the launch of our research report, SILENT KILLER: When institutional obligations restrict public health workers’ moral duty to save lives.

The report exposes how the public service regulatory framework silences the voices of public health workers, limiting public disclosure and the public’s ability to hold authorities accountable for corruption and maladministration that is driving health institutions towards collapse. Those who try to speak out are faced with disciplinary action, intimidation, or death.

The report will be launched in partnership with the Progressive Health Forum (PHF) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).

Panelists:

• Prof Alex van den Heever, Chair, Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Wits School of Governance, and affiliated to the PHF

• Prof Ebrahim Variava, Adjunct Professor at Wits, Internal Medicine (Johannesburg Hospital), Head of Department, Internal Medicine at Klerkdorp Tshepong Hospital, North-West, and affiliated to the PHF

• Hanifa Manda, Project Manager, Campaign for Free Expression and Young African Leaders Fellow 2021, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute