Biography

Elzette Rousseau is a socio-behavioural and implementation scientist at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) with a PhD in Behavioural Medicine. Her research interests include enhancing community-based access to current and new HIV prevention biomedical technologies and supporting peer-led and adolescent co-created sexual and reproductive health services. She has been involved in implementing and evaluating community-based sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) for >10 years including scaling up PrEP (oral, dapivirine ring and injectable PrEP). She holds membership of the South Africa’s PrEP Technical Working Group and WomenLiftHealth Southern Africa focused on empowering women leaders to collectively transform global health outcomes.