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Dave Strugnell | October 2020 In this bizarre year of 2020, and after several months spent trying to understand and model the coronavirus pandemic and its health and mortality impacts, it somehow seemed appropriate to [...]

Dr Anja Smith | October 2020 Covid-19 and its secondary impacts on the health system became very real to me one day in March, shortly after the identification of Patient Zero in South Africa, when a [...]

Shivani Ranchod | September 2020 Shivani Rancod, CEO of Percept, discussed how we can leverage digital solutions to reimage healthcare delivery beyond Covid-19 and how we can prevent deaths resulting from Covid-induced economic impacts in [...]

Percept | September 2020 Covid-19 and the associated lockdown decisions have created severe restrictions on the supply- and demand-sides of the South African economy which are likely to deepen the existing recession. This study uses [...]

Perceptors | August 2020 This is a collection of our reflections during Women’s Month. They reflect our diversity of experiences and views and styles (satire, poetry, advocacy), but also share a common grappling with the [...]

Percept | August 2020 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report lays out the critical policy [...]

Percept | July 2020 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report reflects learnings that can be drawn from [...]

Covid-19 does not arrive to a blank canvas. Instead, it snakes through pre-existing queues, igniting sites of vulnerability. As it does, it teaches us that we cannot have a narrow, disease-specific approach to health. Sickness is systemic. And health is about the whole person, not just a single infection.

Perceptors | June 2020 The events of the last few weeks have resonated deeply with the Percept team – we’ve been saddened and enraged, we’ve turned inward to engage our compassion and turned outward to [...]

Anja Smith | May 2020 During the last two weeks debates and discussions on the direct mortality impacts of Covid-19 relative to the mortality impacts that will flow from the recession induced by lockdown policy [...]

Beth Vale | May 2020 In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an ‘epidemiological transition.’ The world was no longer living in an age of [...]

Shivani Ranchod, Anja Smith and Jodi Wishnia| December 2019 Percept-Strategic-Purchasing-HASA-Policy-Brief-Series-Brief-7-201911Download In this brief… The prior briefs articulate the functions of the purchaser, and the requirements to realise a purchaser-provider split in South Africa. In this [...]