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Speaker BiographyKarl Peltzer, Ph.D.
Karl Peltzer is Research Director in the research programme Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. He is a prevention researcher and evaluator with over 20 years of experience in the study of health promotion, risk behavior and disease prevention, and socio-behavioral interventions. Dr Peltzer has published extensively on health behaviour and health interventions (13 books and 300 articles). He has worked extensively on public health subject areas of alcohol, tobacco, cancer, tuberculosis and HIV control; nutrition, physical activity, hypertension, mental health, injury and violence prevention and health systems in Africa. He has been the Editor-in-chief of Journal of Psychology in Africa (from 1988-2003). |
