Dr Brenda Kubheka-Chauke is a distinguished physician executive and bioethics scholar with over two decades of leadership at the intersection of healthcare governance, clinical practice and health systems transformation. She combines deep operational expertise with strategic foresight to drive equitable, ethical and technologically progressive healthcare solutions. She holds a medical degree from MEDUNSA, a PDBA, an MBA, media and medicine and clinical ethics certificates and a diploma in project management. She will graduate in May 2025 with her MSc in Bioethics from Harvard Medical School.  

She is the co-founder and MD of Health IQ Consulting and co-founded Matched Media, a health communications company. She previously held leadership roles as Chief Director for Hospital Services at the Mpumalanga Department of Health and Chief Medical Officer at Clinix Health Group, among others. She serves on multiple boards and subcommittees. 

Furthermore, she serves on one of the committees of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She is a member of the Council of the Gauteng North branch of the South African Medical Association and previously served as a council member at the University of Limpopo. She designed and teaches a module on Doctors as Leaders and Health Advocates at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) and recently led the design and implementation of the Leadership and Management Programme for Health Leaders, which included diversity, inclusion, equity and access in healthcare, in collaboration with a Gauteng-based medical school. She has taught and facilitated critical conversations at various institutions, including Wits, Nelson Mandela University, Monash (SA) University and pharmaceutical companies. The Department of Medical Physics within the medical school at SMU recently appointed her as an AI research associate.  

She is an African Leadership Initiative (SA) Fellow and an Aspen Global Leadership Network member. She regularly gets invited to give talks to USA-based healthcare MBA students during their African immersion module. As a bioethics scholar, she has published academic articles and opinion pieces on numerous subjects.