Lecturer and researcher, Discipline of Psychology, University of Witwatersrand.

Mzikazi Nduna first became interested in sexuality, reproductive health, and gender power issues while working as an educator in the Eastern Cape. She worked with the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA) as a project manager for an HIV/AIDS training and resource centre project for several years. She went on to join the Medical Research Council where she made a substantial contribution primarily in the area of training and evaluation research. She is particularly passionate about youth sexuality. She ran Phase 1 of an Operations Research on increasing access to VCT at the Population Council, FRONTIERS before joining the Discipline of Psychology at Wits where she currently works as a Lecturer. Her specific areas are Health and Social psychology. Mzi has given a lot of national and international conference presentations and co-authored a number of journal articles in the field.

She is a member of the SA AIDS Consortium, collaborates with the Gender & Health Research Group of the MRC, is an independent observer for the EngenderHealth’s Men As Partners (MAP) Swedish funded project and a Fellow of the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre.

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