Flavia Senkubuge
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EducationQueenstown Girls High School
KnownforPresident of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
Flavia Senkubuge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 or 1979 (age 46–47)[1] Uganda[2] |
| Education | Queenstown Girls High School |
| Alma mater | University of Pretoria Colleges of Medicine of South Africa Edinburgh Business School |
| Known for | President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Tobacco control |
| Institutions | University of Pretoria Colleges of Medicine of South Africa |
| Thesis | Smoking-related health risk knowledge, and reactions to cigarette warning labels amongst South African adults (2020) |
Flavia Senkubuge (born 1978 or 1979) is a South African physician, professor of public health medicine, an advocate of global public health and the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. At age 39, she was the college's youngest ever president and the first Black woman to hold the position.[3][4][5][6]
Senkubuge was raised in Lady Frere, then in the Transkei. She relocated to Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, where she attended Queenstown Girls High School to finish her high school education. As the 1996 Eastern Cape Matric of the year, she received the highest honor given in the region.[7][3]
