Dr. Elzette Rousseau is a socio-behavioural scientist at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, with a PhD in Behavioural Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
She has been involved in designing and implementing community-based sexual and reproductive health services for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), with a special interest in peer-led and adolescent co-created sexual services and enhancing access to current and new HIV prevention biomedical technologies for over 10 years.
As a member of the South African PrEP Technical Working Group, Dr. Rousseau’s work on community-based Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery and AGYW’s PrEP-user journey has engendered high-level interest.
Dr Rousseau is passionate about capacitating young women to thrive as leaders tackling sexual and reproductive health challenges and solutions. As a result, she aspires to include AGYW as Community Investigators in all research that affects them.
