Lynette Keneilwe Eyde is a seasoned public health and human rights advocate with over 17 years of experience advancing health equity, and access to medicines across Africa and globally. As a Board Member of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC), she brings a strong commitment to intersectional feminism, bodily autonomy, and the advancement of sexual and reproductive justice, with a focus on ensuring that marginalised communities have the power and resources to make informed decisions about their health and bodies.
Lynette is a regional Health Systems and Access Consultant with the Sustainable Access Platform for Affordable Medicines & Devices (SAPAM). She was previously served as Global Tuberculosis Advocacy Advisor at the Treatment Action Group (TAG), where she led international work on tuberculosis prevention, gender-affirming and rights-based programming, advocacy capacity strengthening, and policy analysis. Her career includes leadership roles at the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), as well as advisory work with the SADC Secretariat, focusing on the harmonisation of regional medicines regulation and the integration of human rights principles within intellectual property and patent law frameworks.
She recently held several governance and advisory roles, including Board Member representing the NGO Delegation to Unitaid Board, membership of the Ethical Advisory Group of The Union for Lung Health, and participation on the Regional Programme Steering Committee for the Global Fund–supported Tuberculosis in the Mining Sector (TIMS)programme, providing programmatic oversight.
Lynette is currently a PhD candidate in Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town, where her research focuses on bioethics, Intellectual Property governance models, and data governance within African medical bioeconomies and advanced health biotechnologies. She holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law and an LLB from Rhodes University.
Her work sits at the intersection of law, ethics, and public health governance, grounded in principles of justice, care, and African women’s political agency. She contributes to SRJC’s mission of advancing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.