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29 March 2022

SPaRCS team meet in Cape Town

After almost 2 years working together, the SPaRCS team finally met for our first in-person meeting in Cape Town in March 2022
9 December 2021

Call for applications Postdoctoral Fellow 2022: The Food Environment Research Group

The Food Environment Research group (a collective from Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, School of Public Health and the DSI/NRF Center of Excellence in Food Security) at the University of the Western Cape under the leadership of Prof Rina Swart is seeking Post-doctoral Research Fellows to work on several studies related to the food environment in South Africa.
15 November 2021

Call for Applications: Doctoral Scholarship 2022

The School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape seeks to recruit a full-time doctoral candidate from January 2022. The doctoral candidate will be required to register at the University of the Western Cape, and will work on a 3-year project funded by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC).
15 September 2021

Jakes Gerwel Award 2021: Sulakshana Nandi

Dr Sulakshana Nandi is from Chhattisgarh State in India, where she is the State Convener of the Public Health Resource Network, a national non-governmental network for research, advocacy and capacity building in public health.