Sunanda Ray is currently Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medical Education, University of Botswana Faculty of Medicine, and on the editorial board of the African Journal of Primary Healthcare and Family Medicine. For 40 years, she has worked as a public health physician, researcher, educator, manager and practitioner in urban and rural health services in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Britain, including 9 years at the University of Zimbabwe.
Sunanda was a founder member of the Women’s Action Group, and Women and AIDS Support Network in the 80s and Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights in 2000. In 2019, she won the Sian Griffiths Global Health Award from the Faculty of Public Health UK for her outstanding leadership, commitment and contribution to health professionals’ education in public health knowledge, skills and research methods in Africa.
She worked with White Ribbon Alliance in Zimbabwe to develop a Respectful Maternity Care workshop programme and toolkit for midwives in 2018, which showed successful changes in practice. Since 2021, Sunanda has been coordinating the establishment of the College of Family Physicians East Central and Southern Africa (ECSA-CFP). She was a founding member of ZHTS in 2006 and is excited to be a trustee again.
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