Katusha de Villiers

Katusha leads the Bertha Centre’s health focused work, while also supporting project work within the education, youth development, systems innovation, and innovative finance areas at the Centre. She teaches master classes on health systems innovation at the UCT Graduate School of Business’s MBA and MPhil, as well as for the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo. She has spearheaded the Centre’s developing understanding of health systems integration and the role of social innovators in health, and has spoken and presented on this topic at a number of academic conferences.

Prior to joining the Bertha Centre, she was a management consultant with experience working on multiple payer, provider, and pharma/life sciences projects across the American healthcare system, with a specific focus on the peri-operative continuum of care. Katusha has a Masters in Health Systems Administration from Xavier University, as well a law degree from the University of Kentucky Law School, and additional qualifications in project management and Lean Six Sigma.