Professor EUNICE SEEKOE (PhD)
Global Advisor
Professor Eunice Seekoe holds a PhD, MBA, and M Soc Sc in Nursing Education. Professor Seekoe is the acting Vice-Principal: teaching and learning, community engagement and student support at University of South Africa (UNISA). She is a visiting Professor at University of Lincoln, UK, an adjunct Professor at the Sterling University, UK and Walter Sisulu University in South Africa. Prof Eunice was former Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC), Teaching, Learning and Community Engagement at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa and Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Fort Hare, South Africa. She was the Director of the Albertina Sisulu Executive Leadership Programme in Health (ASELPH), a partnership amongst the Universities of Fort Hare (Faculty of Health Sciences), Pretoria (School of Public Health) and Harvard (School of Public Health). Professor Seekoe is a Deputy Chair of the EDHE Entrepreneurial Universities committee of practice (CoP). She is a member of the Ministerial Think Tank on Community Health Workers Policy and Training and other professional organizations where she holds leadership positions.
Her academic career started at the University of the Free State where she pioneered the development and implementation of a Problem Based Learning and Community Based Curriculum within the School of Nursing. She is an expert in professional development courses including transformational and strategic Leadership, Management practices, Research and Policy Transformation practices. She is a recipient of Several Scholarship Awards from HSRC, NRF and MRC. She is the winner of the following awards: Businesswoman Awards 2016, University of the Free State Chancellor Distinguished Alumni Awards, and Cum laude Award. She has successfully supervised 32 master’s and 8 PhD projects. She has presented 25 papers at international conferences, published 60 papers in accredited international journals and 6 book chapters.
