Anja Smith is a part-time researcher at Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP: http://resep.sun.ac.za/) at the Economics Department of Stellenbosch University. She is a development economist by training.

She returned to Stellenbosch University on a full-time basis in 2012 to pursue a PhD in Economics, graduating in 2016. Her PhD focused on various topics related to the financing, delivery, and user acceptability of healthcare in South Africa. Anja’s postdoctoral research examined questions related to the measurement of quality of healthcare and access to contraception and reproductive care for vulnerable women in South Africa. Since then, her research has focused on deepening her work on sexual and reproductive care, health financing and substandard and falsified medicine. Anja is a Y1-rated researcher (by the National Research Foundation of South Africa).