Welcome to the Faculty of Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences offers professional undergraduate degrees in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. Training is offered with practical experience in five major hospitals in Johannesburg as well as several rural hospitals, the state of the art Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre and various clinics. Through its partnership with the Gauteng Health Department, Wits employs over 800 medical and dental consultants who are involved in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates and in the research programmes. Approximately 500 students graduate in these professions each year. News Future Events Feedback Giving to Wits Contacts Important News & Events SHOULD HEALTHCARE WORKERS BE ALLOWED TO GO ON STRIKE? The Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits are hosting Ethics Alive 2010, a week-long programme of debates and discussions exploring issues of ethics, law and human rights in healthcare practice. Read more Professor Yosuf Veriava awarded a DSc (honoris causa) at the Faculty’s graduation ceremony, 10 December 2009.  Read the citation  World AIDS Day 2009:       Address by Professor Helen Laburn Vision Statement The Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits University, acknowledging its role in the training of health professionals, in furthering knowledge through research and its responsibility to be relevant and responsive to the health needs of the communities it serves, and of the country, will be The Faculty of Health Sciences of choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and professional training particularly in the South African and sub-Saharan context, offering modern and relevant curricula and facilities, with national and international reputations The Faculty of highest reputation in South Africa for scholarship in health sciences teaching, research and clinical service A Faculty with which staff are proud to be associated, and in which they can thrive A Faculty with a supportive, efficient, effective and service-oriented administration

Professor Helen Laburn Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences. Professor Helen Laburn holds a BSc Honours degree and a PhD from Wits. Prior to her deanship in 2006, Laburn was Head of the School of Physiology at Wits and Professor of Thermal Physiology in that School. She continues to hold an Honorary Professorship in the Brain Function Research Group, in the School. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, an Honorary Fellow of the Physiology Society of Southern Africa – awards which recognise her contribution to research in thermal and fetal physiology, and an NRF-rated researcher. For several years she was the only South African who was a foreign member of the Physiological Society (London).