Richard Matzopoulos

Richard Matzopoulos is a Chief Specialist Scientist and Director of the South African Medical Research Council’s Burden of Disease Research Unit. He also co-ordinates the Violence and Injury Research programme at the University of Cape Town’s Division of Public Health Medicine, where he holds the position of Honorary Professor, and is affiliated to the university’s Trauma Advocacy Group. His research centres on measuring the health and social burden of violence and injury, and evaluating interventions and policies that target upstream determinants. He advises the Western Cape Government on alcohol harm reduction, and interpersonal violence and injury prevention and surveillance. He is a South African focal point for the international Violence Prevention Alliance and a Member of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics and Methods.