Institution: Durban University of Technology
Country: South Africa
Prof Gugu Mchunu is an Executive Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology (DUT), in South Africa, a position she assumed on the 1st of June 2021. Prior to that she was the Head of the Nursing Discipline at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), School of Nursing and Public Health (College of Health Sciences). She has previously worked as the Executive Director of the Durban Chamber Foundation (part of Durban Chamber of Commerce), a Senior Research Specialist and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Research Council (HSRC).
She is a Nurse and Midwife, and holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Nursing, Masters in Nursing and a PhD in Nursing Prof Mchunu has more than 25 years’ experience in the academic sector, with the following nursing specialization - (a) Community Health Nursing (b) Nursing Education, (c) Health Services Management (d) Primary Care (e) Occupational Health (f) Project Monitoring and Evaluation and (g)Policy guidelines development. Prof Mchunu is an International Ford Foundation Alumna and completed her PhD through a sandwich programme, between the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, USA.
