Vincent Setlhare

Dr. Vincent Setlhare MD, MBA, MFamMed, FGHL, PhD candidate, is Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Medicine at the University of Botswana (Botswana, Africa). He is a family physician who teaches family medicine and research methodology to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Dr. Vincent Setlhare is a member of the World Spine Care Executive Committee and is the Botswana Primary Investigator of the Global Spine Care Initiative Project (GSCI). He is chairman of the African Consortium for Excellence in Family Medicine, an organisation of faculty from five African universities in southern Africa. He is presently helping to review the WHO Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation of People with Low Back Pain.

Dr Setlhare is a member of Primafamed, Wonca (Africa), and the Botswana Association of Family Physicians. His main area of research is doctor-patient interactions/relationships and their impact on primary health care in Botswana.