Gender
Organisation aiming to promote equity and development through health research.
Research is structured in six National Programmes according to high-priority areas identified by the South African Government and in keeping with international trends. Programmes and units include:
- environment and development -alcohol and drug abuse, exercise science and sports medicine research unit, , health & development, health promotion research
- health systems and policy - includes telemedicine research, biostatistics
- non-communicable diseases - including stress disorders, cancer epidemiology , crime, violence and injury, dental research
- infection and immunity - including tuberculosis research , HIV prevention and vaccine research, malaria research, South African traditional medicines research
- molecules to disease - including molecular and cellular biology, human genetics research, human genomic diversity and disease research
- women and child health - gender and health, maternal and infant care, nutrition
Web site includes: current research details and opportunities, policy briefs, full-text online publications, newsletters - includes: TB Times, AIDS Bulletin, Urban Health and Development (back issues/articles available online) and MRC news.
| Website: | http://www.mrc.ac.za/home.html |
| Email: | leverne.gething@mrc.ac.za |
| Tel: | +27 (0)21 9380911 |
| Fax: | +27 (0)21 9380200 |
| Address: | Headquarters: Medical Research Council of South Africa, PO Box 19070, 7505 Tygerberg, South Africa , South Africa |
