is former Executive Director of SECTION27, was one of the founding members of the Treatment Action Campaign and is Editor of Maverick Citizen; the division of Daily Maverick dedciated to Civil Society.is the CEO of the South African Health Products Regulator. She has a Ph.D. and also holds MSc in Management Finance and Investment. She is also a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative.
is the Chairperson of the Board of SAHPRA. Prof Rees is also the Executive Director of the University of Witwatersrand’s Reproductive Health and HIV Institute where she is serves as a Personal Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Co-Director of Wits University’s Flagship Centre for Vaccinology . She is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of their Visiting Committee.