The list of partners reflects the extensive network of links we have with local and international academic institutions, health sector partners, local community organisations and international development organisations. This work is supported by a wide range of funders, both large and small, which include, among others, the EU, NIH, IDRC, NRF, SAMRC and the Belgian government.
Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) remains a corner stone of our work, clustered around and supported by two SARChIs Chairs in Health Systems and an extra-mural SAMRC Research Unit (Health Services to Systems).
HIV/AIDS remains and important programmatic area of work, with projects exploring the acceptability and feasibility of a family intervention to improve ART adherence (SINAKO) and Interventions to improve adherence and retention in care for adolescents on anti-retroviral therapy in the Western Cape.
Other projects in the School also explore public health challenges faced by adolescents, from the impact of violence to access to health services.
Food security, food choices and their interaction with non-communicable diseases, as well as pharmaceutical public health, have continued to feature strongly in our research portfolio.
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- Adolescent
- Children
- Community
- Community Health Workers (CHWs)
- COVID-19
- Curriculum design
- Gender
- Governance
- Health Information Systems (HIS)
- Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR)
- Health Professions Education
- Health Promotion
- Higher Education
- HIV
- Human Resources for Health (HRH)
- Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
- Mental Health
- Multi-sectoral
- Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs
- Nutrition
- Pharmaceutical Public Health
- Rural
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Urban Health
- Violence
- The African Regional Community of Practice (CoP) for Gender and Health in Africa was formed to facilitate a space in which the African community can engage in greater discussions and share ideas on matters of Gender and Health, especially after the Covid-19 global pandemic. It aims to advance African initiatives that facilitate regional understanding, collaboration, and policy-relevant knowledge production and practice on gender and health.
- The overall aim of the project (February 2022-May 2025) is to foster a strengthened community of researchers and policymakers informed, connected and empowered to use gender-transformative frameworks and methods in their research and practice.
- Researching the obesogenic food environment, its drivers and potential policy levers in South Africa and Ghana
- The School of Public Health, with its South African partners, are exploring how child health and wellbeing indicators can drive change through multisectoral policy processes in the Western Cape, South Africa.
