Healthy Futures South Africa

Learning beyond the classroom 🏡📊

the School of Public Health an implementing partner within Healthy Futures South Africa (HFSA), recently facilitated an experiential learning excursion for Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics students to both private and public sector retirement homes.

The visit offered students an opportunity to critically engage with the economics of ageing, long-term care, and health systems in practice, while reflecting on the contrasts, challenges, and realities across different models of care provision. By engaging directly with these settings, students were able to connect health economics theory to lived experiences and the broader questions of equity, access, sustainability, and dignity in healthcare.

Smiles from our Learning forum on the 21st and 22nd of May 2026!📸😆

Learning forums are spaces dedicated to reflecting on HFSA's impact on local health ecosystems. This year, we looked back on the outcomes and lessons learned from our site-specific activities in Klipfontein, Knysna-Bitou, and Saldanha-Bay.
This forum also allowed us to reflect on how to engage youth and how to make our initiatives more accessible to local communities. 🫂

Our Learning Forums are a fantastic chance for HFSA teammates to come together and examine our strides in boosting Primary Health Care, making waves in policy change, and creating exciting pathways for youth in the health sector! 💡

Join us from the 1st to the 3rd of June 2026, for a FREE, 3-day Health Promotion short course! 💡

This course will cover the ethics of health promotion, community needs assessments, how to present your ideas confidently and MORE! Those who attend ALL 3 days of the workshop in person will receive a UCT CERTIFICATE. 📃

** Register at the link in our BIO. 🔗

📍 Please note registration is open to ONLY those residing in Klipfontein.

Or use this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_wV9EYgY7g4AD1Mf6PCgnFvh_VJn1s2hEP62WvUQRVWgM9w/viewform

Youth Health Promotion Workshop - Registration

1 day to go until the Health Entrepreneurship Summit 2026.

Tomorrow, entrepreneurs, researchers, health professionals, innovators, and ecosystem partners come together around a shared recognition: the future of healthcare in Africa will depend on our ability to collaborate differently, think systemically, and invest in locally grounded solutions.

The conversations ahead are not only about innovation itself, but about the conditions needed for innovation to create meaningful and lasting impact within communities and health systems.

The countdown is almost over.

Last year’s Pitch Day reminds us that health innovation often begins with people closest to the challenges themselves.

Across the day, young entrepreneurs, changemakers, and innovators presented ideas shaped by lived experience, community realities, and a deep commitment to improving health outcomes in South Africa. What stood out was not only the quality of the ideas, but the confidence, creativity, and systems-thinking behind them.

The Health Entrepreneurship Summit 2026 continues that conversation — bringing together entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, researchers, funders, and health leaders to reflect on what it takes to build stronger, more resilient health systems across Africa.

Innovation is not only about technology. It is about people, partnerships, and creating pathways for ideas to grow into sustainable impact.

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Over the past year, the Health Entrepreneurship pillar has explored different ways of building pathways into innovation within the health sector — from bootcamps and ecosystem workshops to mentorship, venture support, and spaces for collaborative problem-solving.

What has consistently stood out is the importance of creating environments where young people and emerging innovators are not only participants, but contributors to conversations about the future of healthcare.

These moments from the Philippi innovation bootcamp reflect part of that broader journey: bringing together local insight, lived experience, creativity, and systems thinking to explore how communities themselves can shape healthier futures.

Health entrepreneurship is not only about launching ventures. It is also about strengthening ecosystems, building confidence and capability, encouraging collaboration, and expanding who gets to imagine and design solutions within healthcare.

As we continue counting down to the Health Entrepreneurship Summit 2026, we’re reflecting on the many conversations, ideas, and people that continue to shape this growing ecosystem.

5 days to go until the Health Entrepreneurship Summit 2026.

Across the continent, conversations around healthcare are increasingly expanding beyond hospitals and treatment alone. The focus is shifting toward prevention, innovation, entrepreneurship, systems thinking, and community-driven solutions that respond to real-world challenges.

The work ahead requires more than isolated interventions. It requires collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and communities — and spaces that allow those conversations to happen meaningfully.

The countdown continues.

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