The Ekurhuleni Population-Based Cancer Registry (EPBCR) is the first urban population-based cancer registry in South Africa.
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The National Cancer Registry was nominated as a GICR Collaborating Centre for the region for childhood cancer and record linkage, and Dr Singh was also instrumental in ongoing developments to establish national childhood cancer registration in South Africa, as part of the IARC–St Jude project ChildGICR.ĭr Singh enhanced the pathology-based cancer surveillance system, to implement pilot population-based cancer registration, and to extend this initiative to three other sentinel surveillance sites throughout the country. She then joined the National Institute for Occupational Health as a public health specialist in January 2010. Under Dr Singh’s leadership, first as acting head in 2013 and officially in 2016, the National Cancer Registry was an active member of the African Cancer Registry Network, which is the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Hub of the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development (GICR).
She was head of the National Cancer Registry and a senior staff member at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.ĭr Singh graduated as a medical doctor from the University of KwaZulu-Natal at the end of 2000 and received her master’s degree in community health as well as her fellowship in public health from Wits, winning the Henry Gluckman Medal for Best Candidate. Respected public health specialist with extensive experience in fields of cancer and surveillance and cancer epidemiology, Dr Elvira Singh (MMed 2009), died on 27 February 2022. Sources: PAST, Wits University Elvira Singh (1976-2022) Her passion for and knowledge of Africa and its prehistoric past earned her the admiration and love of countless people across the continent and beyond.” Tributes from colleagues indicate that Leenen was “a beacon of enthusiasm, intelligence and generosity that shined without limit.
At the time of her passing, Leenen was leading the expansion of All from One into what she anticipated would become a global campaign. All from One uses the science of the shared origins of life and the African origins of people everywhere to promote continental pride and dignity, human unity and anti-racism, and the imperative for our survival to conserve Earth’s natural environments and biodiversity. One of the campaign’s inspirations was the late PAST patron and fellow Witsie Johnny Clegg’s Scatterlings of Africa song, which PAST adopted as its credo in 2011. In recognition of the tremendous social value of the origin sciences, Leenen co-led the creation of the All from One campaign with Rob Blumenschine in 2015. Recently, she led the creation of filmed Walking Tall theatre performances, termed “theamentaries”, which promise to greatly expand the project’s reach in and beyond Africa. In its original form as a live theatre performance followed by an interactive science session that won the hearts and heads of learners, Walking Tall visited schools and science festivals throughout South Africa and in seven other African countries, reaching over 1.4 million beneficiaries. To this end, and to help steer learners toward a career in the African origin sciences, she co-created the award-winning Walking Tall educational theatre project with Greg Melvill-Smith in 2001. Leenen saw the origin sciences as a gateway for young Africans to embrace scientific thinking. She was CEO of the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST) since 2000 and raised funds to build the organisation into one of the largest, Africa-based independent organisations that support research, education and public understanding of Africa’s fossil history. Leenen was a close friend of Wits and an ardent supporter of the palaeosciences. Obituaries 2022 Andrea Leenen (1972-2022)Īndrea Leenen (MSc 2011) passed away on 1 March 2022 after a short illness.
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