
Professor Karen Hofman is the Director of PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons for Systems Strengthening) based in the Wits/MRC Agincourt Unit at the Wits School of Public Health.
A medical graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and trained as paediatrician, Karen previously served as Director of Policy and Planning at the US NIH, Fogarty International Center and spent a decade on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has consulted for WHO /PAHO and is published widely in international journals.