Heidi van Rooyen is the Executive Director of the Human and Social Development Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). She is a social scientist with a PhD in psychology and a professorship from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Her research involvement and interests have been within the context of HIV prevention and treatment, community development, engagement and participation in research. Heidi is an accomplished and internationally recognized scholar. She is also a member of the International Health Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Combination Prevention Working Group and a member of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) HIV Testing and Counselling Working Group. She is a certified life coach who balances the demands of leadership, publishing and grant writing with a regular contemplative writing practice, poetry and walking.
