Maylene King

Maylene Shung-King is an Associate Professor in the Health Policy and Systems Division of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town and has a DPhil (oxon) in Social Policy. She previously worked as Deputy- and Acting Director of the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town for 10 years.

Her passion for child health remains and she currently is involved in a multi-country research network focusing on determinants of NCDs in adolescents, in Africa and the Caribbean. She convenes a post-graduate Diploma in Health Leadership, thus contributing to health systems strengthening through leadership capacity development.

Education

• DPhil in Social Policy, 2012 DPhil in Social Policy, University of Oxford, 2012 (2007 — 2012)
• MB ChB University of KwaZulu-Natal (1982 — 1987)

Companies

• Associate Professor University of Cape Town, Health Policy and Systems Division (2017)
• Senior Lecturer, Health Policy and Systems Division University of Cape Town (2015 — 2017)
• Post-doctoral Fellow University of Cape Town (2012 — 2014)
• Deputy Director Children's Institute, University of Cape Town (1997 — 2006)