Mary Kawonga is a Medical Specialist in Community Health at the Gauteng Provincial Health Department and the University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health in Johannesburg, South Africa. She works with health officials at national, provincial and district levels on policy development, and the assessment, planning, and delivery of health care services. She also teaches and supervises postgraduate students. She has published research on the challenges of delivering reproductive health care services and on the integration of disease-specific services within the health system. Dr Kawonga has a medical degree from the University of Zambia and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a Fellow of the College of Public Health Medicine of South Africa.