Roy Jobson

Roy Jobson is a medical doctor specialist in clinical pharmacology. He is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Pharmacy at Rhodes University. His research over the last 8 years has focussed on misleading advertising of medicines in South Africa - with an emphasis on unregistered complementary and alternative medicines. He was appointed a Council member of the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa, as a community representative, by the Minister of Health in 2011. He is a member of the Neil Aggett Support Group, and an associate of the Khulumani Support Group. He believes that health professionals have a moral obligation to speak out against injustice wherever they come across it.