title: Sharon Fonn
text: # Sharon Fonn
  
  Sharon Fonn is a South African Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work has focused on cervical cancer, health systems and developing African capacity for public health research.
  
  ## Career and impact
  
  Fonn served as the head of the University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health from 2003 to 2011. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Professor Fonn helped to set up Africa's longest running study of children from birth She has published over 50 scientific articles.
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  * honorary doctorate at Sahlgrenska Academy
  