Prof Keitshepile Geoffrey Setswe

Prof Keitshepile Geoffrey Setswe is CEO of Aurum South Africa and a public health academic and researcher with extensive experience in HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), tuberculosis (TB), health policy, epidemiology and global health. He is an Honorary Professor of Public Health at Sefako Makgatho University and a member of the National Health Research Committee (NHRC).

From 2006 to 2017, Prof Setswe worked at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), progressing through the roles of Chief Research Specialist, Research Director and Deputy Executive Director before serving as Executive Director of the HIV/AIDS/STI/TB (HAST) research programme. Prof Setswe has also served as Professor of Public Health at Monash University and was the founding Head of the School of Health Sciences at Monash South Africa, where he chaired the Senate (Board of Studies) between 2010 and 2013.

Prof Setswe holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the University of Limpopo and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in the 1990s. Earlier in his career, he was the founding Director of the AIDS Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, coordinating AIDS research from 2003 to 2005, and served as Deputy Chair of the AIDS Consortium from 2005 to 2011. He also spent 11 years at the Medical University of Southern Africa (MEDUNSA) as a lecturer, senior lecturer and professor of public health and was among the founding staff of the National School of Public Health (NSPH). From 2008 to 2012, Prof Setswe served as Co-Chair of the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation (RME) Technical Task Team (TTT) of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) and has served as a non-executive director on the Board of the Medical Research Council (MRC).