Professor Salome Maswime is the Head of Global Surgery Division at the University of Cape Town; Director of UCT’s World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Integrated Clinical Care; and the Vice-Chairperson of the Medical and Dental Professions Board and Council Member of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, a clinician scientist, a pioneer in Global Surgery education, and a Global Health expert. Her qualifications include MBChB at UKZN, FCOG(SA), MMED and PhD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Wits University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Salome has worked in several hospitals as a Medical Doctor, Specialist and Clinician Scientist. She is a Member of the Academy of Scientist, and has over 100 publication’s, and has supervised 30 postgraduate students to completion, including 24 Masters and 6 PHD students.

Salome Maswime is the Chairperson of the SADC and the South African Safe Surgical Care Technical Working Group and the President of the South African Clinician Scientists Society. She previously served as the Interim CEO of the Health Systems Trust, and has served in several boards of national and international organisations, and is a member of the United Nations Core Stillbirths Estimates Group. She has received numerous awards for her contribution to science and to healthcare, including the trailblazer and young achiever award by the President of South Africa in 2017; Mail and Guardians 50 most powerful women in South Africa in 2020; and the International Healthcare Practitioner award from Zenith Global Health in the UK in 2025.