About Prof Moosa

Professor Shabir Moosa is a Family Physician. He is Contract Manager in National Health Insurance Branch of the Department of Health and associate professor in the University of Witwatersrand (Wits).

He has a Diploma in PHC Service Mgt (Wits P&DM) (1998), Masters in Family Medicine (MEDUNSA-Limpopo) (2005), a Masters in Business Administration (Wits Business School) (2011) and a PhD (Ghent University) (2015). As Head of Clinical Unit in the Department of Family Medicine (Johannesburg Health District / University of Witwatersrand (Wits)) 2006–2011 / 2023-2025 and practiced mostly in Chiawelo Community Practice and Soweto between.

Prof. Moosa has a history of general practice, community and political activism in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces (the old Transkei) having lived in Kokstad 1990 – 2004. He moved to Johannesburg in 2004 and was project manager in the development of Departments of Family Medicine within Gauteng District Health Services in 2004/5. See Memo 2005. He is actively involved in developing best practice models of Family Medicine, including creating the Chiawelo Community Practice in Soweto as a contracting model for the emerging national health insurance system in South Africa. He help co-design a GP Contracting Model for NHI in 2018 for the South African National Treasury. He was Project Manager for Gautengs NHI Proof of Concept of the Contracting Unit for PHC (CUP) in Soweto, Johannesburg.