Scientific Advisor
Dr Goodman Sibeko is a Medical Doctor with specialist Psychiatric training. He holds a PhD in Psychiatry from the University of Cape Town where he currently serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry and as Director of the US Department of State-funded International Technology Transfer Centre - South Africa.
His work has focused on interventions using non-specialist workers in the management of severe mental illness, and he has a developing research portfolio focused on task sharing models for the treatment of harmful substance use, mental health and HIV. He has an established international collaborative network and has been instrumental in advancing the strengthening of mental health training for community health workers and training in management of substance use disorders for non-specialist workers.
He has a growing body of research work in implementation of interventions for the overlapping pandemics of behavioural disorders and HIV. He has led and participated in several policy development and implementation activities locally in South Africa and further afield on the African continent.