Biography - Dr Gillian Saloojee

Dr. Gillian Saloojee is a paediatric physiotherapist with a special interest in working with children with disabilities and their families living in rural resource-constrained African settings. She is the Founder of Malamulele Onward, a non-profit organization providing therapy services and caregiver training to children with cerebral palsy living in poor, rural areas of Southern Africa. Together with the Malamulele Onward team,  she pioneered the concept of Parent Led Services and developed the Carer-2-Carer programme as an innovative way of reaching all parents of children with disabilities in resource-constrained settings.  Gillian obtained her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007.  For the past twenty years she has led a variety of training courses for therapists working with children with Cerebral Palsy and has trained hundreds of young therapists.  Gillian  is also actively involved in several research projects in the field of children with disabilities and she has several publications in peer-reviewed journals.