José Frantz (PhD) is an academic leader and Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research and Innovation at the University of the Western Cape, where she is responsible for the strategic vision of research and innovation. Prior to this position, she was the Dean of the Faculty for Community and Health Science at UWC (2013-2017).

Her strategic interests include the promotion and advancement of research for impact through knowledge exchange and capacity building in health professions education and faculty development. She has secured research funding nationally and internationally to promote capacity development in the field of health education and development of emerging researchers. Her commitment to human capacity development is reflected in the numbers of Master’s (45) and PhD students (15) that she has supervised and her academic activities in terms of teaching, learning and research is evident in her more than 100 publications.