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Roseanne Harris

Roseanne Harris

Health Policy Actuary at South Africa

Discovery Health

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Professor Roseanne Harris was president of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) in 2022 and president of the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) in 2016/17. She is the head of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Discovery Health and Adjunct Professor in the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of the Witwatersrand (her alma mater). She has worked as a health actuary in South Africa for over 30 years and has been teaching postgraduate students since 1998. She has published peer-reviewed papers on topics including wellness incentives, HIV management, health promotion, ethical decision making and deep learning applications. Roseanne was awarded the Murray Medal by ASSA for outstanding contribution to the South African actuarial profession in 2023.