About Us

          ABOUT STEPHEN HARRISON
Stephen Harrison is the sole proprietor of Stephen Harrison Attorney, a general legal practice, with a focus on public interest law.
 
His educational background and professional career has been at the interface of public law and public health, with experience in the government, parastatal, non-governmental organisation and higher education sectors. 

 He has gained knowledge and experience in, amongst other things: public policy development and advocacy, health sector regulation, medical law and ethics, legislative drafting, and strategic management.

In collaboration with other entities, he has provided consultancy services in fields as diverse as alcohol harms reduction, local government monitoring and support, neonatal and obstetric care systems, national health insurance, housing and human settlements, and conservation. 

His qualifications include:

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Cape Town (UCT), 1991
• Bachelor of Laws (LLB), UCT, 1993
• Master of Laws (LLM) in Public Law, UCT, 1995
• Master of Public Health (MPH), Columbia University, New York, 1997
• Bachelor of Technology in Emergency Medical Care (BTech EMC), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), 2014

•  Stephen Harrison Attorney (2018-2022), Attorney in Private Practice
• Department of Emergency Medical Sciences CPUT (2012-2016, and intermittently thereafter), Lecturer at different times in fields of Medical Law and Ethics, Diagnostics, Primary Health Care
• Treatment Action Campaign (2009-2011), Chief Operating Officer
• Council for Medical Schemes (2000-2009), Senior Specialist: Strategy, Senior Specialist: Policy and Special Projects, Head: Research and Monitoring
• Department of Health and Social Services, Western Cape (1997-2000), Deputy Director: Office of Superintendent General, Assistant Director: Policy and Planning
• Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York (1996), Intern
• South African Medical Research Council (1994-1995), Health Law Research Officer.