Thought Leadership

April 2022 By Anja Smith, Jodi Wishnia, Carmen Christian and Daryl Swanepoel Creative solutions in the areas we now know that matter most for inequality — education and labour market access and progression — are urgently [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yageshree Moodley | August 2019 I drifted through the hall, moving through time. It had been almost two years since I opted out of a full-time actuarial career. Now I was surrounded by over a [...]

Dave Strugnell | June 2018 Before we get down to what AI might mean for humanity, I guess we need to start by asking what we mean by AI. […]

Shivani Ranchod | May 2018 I spent Mother’s Day this year in silence, on a meditation retreat, at the beautiful Temenos in McGregor. […]