Degrees Held
- PhD, UKZN, 2025
- Masters in Social Science, UKZN, 2018
- Bachelor of Honours Degree, UKZN 2013
- BA Degree, University of Durban-Westville, 1991
Research Interests
- Health Communication
- Participatory Communication for Development
- Risk Communication and Community Engagement
- Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness
Teaching Interests
- Health Communication
- Participatory Communication for Development
Research Record /Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Chapters In Books
Journal Articles
- Govender, E., Nota, P., Gumede, M. & Ngubane, N. (2024). Using Participatory Art-based Methods to explore experiences and practices in sexual and reproductive health. Methods in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100160
- Gumede, N., Durden, E., & Govender, E. (2022). Presidential communication approaches and the impact on public health: a comparative analysis of three South African presidents’ communication on AIDS and COVID-19. African Journal of AIDS Research, 21(2), 143-151. doi:10.2989/16085906.2022.2091463
Chapters In Books
- Gumede, N. & Govender, E. (2023). Socio-cultural influences of perceptions of risk and self-efficacy on COVID-19 messaging in three selected South African locations. In: Lewis, M., Govender, E. & Holland, K. Communicating COVID-19. Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41237-0_9
- Gumede, N. (2022). Communicating for or with the Other? Reflections On Freire’s Dialogue and Empathy in The South African COVID-19 Communication Response. In: Suzina, A. C., & Tufte, T. (2022). Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change: Institute of Network Cultures. https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/a66c9e91-2837-40b1-8512-027cecce0b77/content
Community Involvement
- (2024) Global Fund/SANAC/UNICEF South Africa, Senior Researcher, providing Support to the Global Fund Principal and Sub-recipients (PRs/SRs) and South Africa National AIDS Council (SANAC) towards strengthening of SRHR and HIV Social and Behaviour Change programmes for Adolescent and Young People in South Africa.
- (2024) Seventeen Triggers/ South African Red Cross Society, Principal Investigator on Inclusive Risk Communication for Climate Disasters
- (2024) Joint Clinical Research Centre (Uganda)/Jansen Pharmaceuticals, Senior Researcher on Perspectives of Patients and Providers on Long-acting Injectable HIV Treatment: examining barriers and facilitators to implementing long-acting cabotegravir plus long-acting rilpivirine in a clinical trial in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.
- (2020) Johnson & Johnson New Horizons Collaborative, Senior Researcher on the Evaluation of the New Horizons Advancing Paediatric HIV Care Collaborative (NHC) in three selected countries: Zambia, Uganda and Kenya.
- (2016-2020) Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health/UNFPA South Africa, Human-Centred Design Research Consultant for a youth-led HIV-prevention programme targeting AGYW and implemented in South Africa.
- (2019) Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health/UNFPA South Africa, Principal Investigator for the Impact Evaluation of the DREAMS Thina Abantu Abasha youth-led HIV prevention programme.
Teaching Expertise
- Qualitative Research Methods
- People and culture-centred Health Communication
- Participatory Communication for Social Change