Marije Versteeg-mojanaga BA, MA

Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga been at the helm of the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) since its inception in 2009. Marije’s expertise lies in health advocacy and social justice, organisational development and governance, coalition-building and partnerships for social change. She is currently working on issues relating to fair priority-setting of healthcare resource allocations, and the ethics of healthcare worker advocacy. Marije holds a Masters Degree in Culture, Organisation and Management from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and is studying towards a Masters in Applied Ethics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

She has spearheaded the development of the two flagship programmes of the RHAP, which are The Voice Project (Building a critical mass of advocacy competent healthcare workers) and the Rural-Proofing Policy and Budgetting Programme. Marije has authored peer-reviewed and popular publications, provides regular presentations on issues affecting human rights and health in public fora and represents RHAP in a number of civil society coalitions, committees and government bodies. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Rural Doctors Association of South Africa, the Working Group on South African Values and Ethics for Universal Health Care (SAVE-UHC) and represents RHAP on the Treatment Action Campaign National Council.