Rachel Jewkes is Executive Scientist: Research Strategy in Office of the President and former Unit Director of the Gender and Health Unit of the South Africa Medical Research Council, based in Pretoria, South Africa.[1] She also serves as Director of the
What Works to Prevent Violence Global Programme, as well as of the
Secretary of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She has been a member of the National Council Against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa and the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board [2] and the WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV-AIDS (STAC-HIV).[1] Jewkes studied Medicine, receiving a Masters in Community Medicine (MSc) and a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
University of London.[1] She is an Honorary Professor in the faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health at the
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and is an A-rated researcher with the
South African National Research Foundation.[3] Jewkes moved from England to South Africa in 1994.[4]
Recent research
A UN-sponsored study coauthored by Jewkes on male violence against women in Asia and the Pacific reported that a high number of men admitted to sexual violence.[5][6] Survey researchers have questioned the plausibility of some of the findings of this study.[7] In 2013 Jewkes also published on depressive symptoms after sexual assault,[8] the epidemiology of child homicides[9] and intimate femicide-suicide.[10]
Publications
Sexual violence
Fulu, Emma; Warner, Xian; Miedema, Stephanie; Jewkes, Rachel; Roselli, Tim; Lang, James (2013). Why Do Some Men Use Violence Against Women and How Can We Prevent It? Quantitative Findings from the United Nations Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok: UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV.
ISBN978-974-680-360-1.
Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Mathews S, Vetten L, Lombard C (2009). "Mortality of women from intimate partner violence in South Africa: a national epidemiological study". Violence and Victims. 24 (4): 546–56.
doi:
10.1891/0886-6708.24.4.546.
PMID19694357.
S2CID33535951.
Women's health
Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Mvo Z (2001). "Health care-seeking practices of pregnant women and the role of the midwife in Cape Town, South Africa". Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. 46 (4): 240–7.
doi:
10.1016/S1526-9523(01)00138-6.
PMID11603639.