Ellen Mokalake is the Acting Assistant Director, Academic Services. She previously served as Discipline Coordinator for Public Health Management. A public health practitioner who started her career as a clinical nurse, Ellen later became a nurse educator and lecturer with Institute of Health Sciences for 13 years. She joined IDM in 2009 as Senior Consultant/Lecturer.

She was later promoted to the position of Principal Consultant/ Lecturer in the Public Health Management Discipline. Ellen possesses more than 20 years’ experience in human resource for health training, 13 of which she engaged in consultancies and research. Specifically, her work at IDM includes education, training, research and consultancy. In addition, Ellen has been involved in varies management roles at both Discipline and Institutional level. She has led a number of consultancies in areas such as HIV and AIDS, Gender and health, curriculum development and TB in the mines.

In 2021, she coordinated a consultancy on Systems Thinking for strengthening District health Systems Initiative in Botswana, which was commissioned by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. She facilitated a consultancy on the implementation of health, promoting school early adopter programme for piloting health promoting school global standards.

Furthermore, she has participated in research with a focus on HIV and supportive counselling, HIV and youth and gender socialization in early adolescence. Ellen holds Masters in Public Health from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor in Education from the University of Botswana. She is a PhD candidate.