The rules of contagion
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,...
The secondary health consequences of Covid-19: the role of fear and economic decline in health seeking behaviour
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...
Reimagining Healthcare Beyond COVID-19
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...
Percept and Women’s Month
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...
Looking into the crystal ball: trajectories for South Africa over the next 12 months
Shivani Ranchod | July 2020 Written for the Board of Healthcare Funders Covid-19 has stripped away the illusion of certainty: there is no room for denial. After months of a global...
No time to wait
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...
Pickled Fish
A story about food that is a story about heritage, neighbourliness and innovation.
Percept and BLM
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...
We need caution, robust methods and strong evidence when quantifying the mortality impacts from the Covid-19 recession
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...
We were already sick: Covid-19, non-communicable diseases, and the health response we really need.
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...