Professor Flavia Senkubuge is a specialist in public health medicine and is the president of Women in Global Health South Africa. She is the deputy dean for health stakeholder relations at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also the 20th president of the Colleges of Medicine South Africa. She is the first black woman and only the third woman in the CMSA’s 67 years to hold the position. She is the current chair of the WHO/African region African Advisory Council on Research and Development.