Rate My Professor Helen Rees

Professor Helen Rees is the founder and Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, the university’s largest research institute and a UNAIDS collaborating centre. She is a Personal Professor in the University of the Witwatersrand’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology within the Faculty of Health Sciences and serves as Co-Director of the Wits African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE) programme. Professor Rees obtained her medical degree and a Master’s in Social and Political Sciences from Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University, where she is now an Honorary Fellow. Her additional qualifications include BA, MB BCh, DCH, MA (Cambridge), MRCGP, MRCOG, DRCOG, and she is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa. She holds honorary doctorates including a D.Sc. (Medicine) honoris causa from the University of London and an LLD honoris causa from Rhodes University. She is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of Clinical Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.