by Anja Smith | Jun 2, 2025 | News
Notes on creativity, risk, and starting anyway In the past week, I revisited some of my old LinkedIn posts. I often use LinkedIn as a space to test out blogs before I move them to my website. Around 2021, during a moment of transition between two career paths, I began...
by Anja Smith | Apr 26, 2025 | News
This is a post I started writing ten months ago. It was after a more than two-week road trip across parts of South Africa and Southern Namibia I had (mostly) never seen. Rural roads, both tar and gravel, were traversed. I was reminded, once again, of what a beautiful,...
by Anja Smith | Mar 19, 2025 | News
I had the joy of spending three weeks on Kangaroo Island in January 2025, an experience that deepened my understanding of rural healthcare. Kangaroo Island, part of South Australia, is the country’s third-largest island, home to around 4,500 residents. The population...
by Anja Smith | Feb 15, 2024 | News
In 2015, when I was wrapping up my PhD, I realised South Africa did not have good national, or any other, quantitative data on how late in their pregnancies adolescents present for antenatal care. While the timing of antenatal care access (relative to a 5-month...
by Anja Smith | Nov 7, 2023 | News
Somewhere towards the end of May this year I noticed how I had become incapable of feeling joy or excitement for a passion project which previously provided much inspiration. Where did my energy for this new idea go? Had I suddenly lost all my ambition, I wondered. My...
by Anja Smith | Feb 10, 2023 | News
Creativity has been on my mind recently. The topic was triggered by the imminent arrival of a special piano to my home. When I was 14 years old, my grand-uncle left me a shiny black grand piano in his will. Oom Boet. He was the person that most personified creativity...
What happens when you say it out loud2 June 2025Notes on creativity, risk, and starting anyway In the […]
Getting lost in the dark26 April 2025This is a post I started writing ten months ago. It […]
What South Africa can learn from South Australia about rural healthcare services19 March 2025I had the joy of spending three weeks on Kangaroo […]
The little study that could. Every time I think about this study, it is how I want to describe it15 February 2024In 2015, when I was wrapping up my PhD, I realised […]
Abundance in spring? Surprisingly, a hard winter helps7 November 2023Somewhere towards the end of May this year I noticed […]