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He has a decorated career, with multiple awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among these, he was awarded the PHILA Annual Award in 2022 by the Public Health Association of South Africa, for his contribution to Public Health, and a Ministerial Special Covid-19 Award in 2020-2021 for Covid-19 Science Communication and Public Engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moshabela serves as the chair of the Governing Board at the National Research Foundation, and Health Commissioner to the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, as one of the seven multi-sector commissioners on the Premier\u2019s Provincial Planning Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is former member of the board at the South African Medical Research Council and former chair of the Standing Committee on Health in the Academy of Science of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A medical doctor by profession, his research is focused on the implementation science of health innovations. This is a multidisciplinary practice, which seeks to improve the access, quality, equity and the impact of healthcare for especially resource-constrained sub-Saharan African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-infectious-diseases\">Infectious diseases<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Primarily, Moshabela\u2019s contribution to health research has been in the improvement of access and quality in health care to combat infectious diseases, particularly in relation to HIV and TB, and in the areas of health systems, services and policy research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Globally, he is a member of the international advisory board for the Lancet Healthy Longevity, Lancet Commission on Synergies between Health Promotion, Universal Healthcare Access and Global Health Security, and the commission of the US National Academies for Science, Engineering and Medicine on the Global Roadmap to Healthy Longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are excitedly looking forward to having Professor Moshabela joining 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