Congress 2026: FINAL PROGRAMME
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Welcome to the webpage for the South African Society for Sleep and Health which was started in 2020.
We aim to bring everyone involved in sleep medicine and sleep research together to form a truly multidisciplinary group. The society comprises 3 subcommittees and various multidisciplinary workstreams.
The subcommittees are a medical and dental subcommittee, one committee for allied health workers and then one which is the science committee comprised of researchers. All committees stretch across South Africa and have particular functions often linked to professional registrations with the HPCSA.
We create multidisciplinary workstreams to tackle various issues and topics which cross boundaries such as fatigue management and children and adolescent sleep.
Our objectives are as follows:
- To educate medical doctors and allied health workers in sleep medicine and research.
- To advocate for universal access to best practice sleep medicine in South Africa.
- To assist in furthering research in all sleep related topics within South Africa.
- To integrate medical, allied health workers and scientists involved in sleep medicine and sleep research in South Africa.
- To represent the interests of South African sleep medicine and research in the wider international and national context by developing associations with other medical and research societies in areas of mutual benefit.
- To publish guidelines which may be of use in maintaining a good quality of sleep medicine and provide assistance in accreditation of training courses, advice to medical funders, industry standards, etc.
- To provide valid evidence-based information regarding sleep for the general public which includes any virtual medium such as radio, television, webinars. etc.
