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
- This project seeks to address the twin challenges of developing capacity for training and research in pharmaceutical public health and doctoral education, and contributing to the goal of strengthening health and pharmaceutical systems capable of sustainably addressing key threats to health.
- Despite the important roles Community Health Workers (CHWs) play in monitoring TB and HIV treatment, they have almost no training in adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and little material is available on this topic for this level of health worker. The SPaRCS project worked collaboratively between 2020 and 2023 to develop training materials to address this gap. The materials are open source and aim to increase awareness and facilitate initiatives to increase adverse drug reaction reporting by health care workers, including community health workers.
Support to the Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunisation and Health Supply Management
Support to the Regional Centre of Excellence for Vaccines, Immunisation and Health Supply Management
Technical Support to the implementation of the East African Community RCE-VIHSCM- SOPH’s key focus with ITM has been on strengthening South-based knowledge generation based on ‘embedded country’ health policy and systems research (HPSR) and education.
- SPaRCS is a 3-year project which commenced in April 2020 funded by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
