Press Releases 2020
Cape Town | As the world rallies to commemorate the 32nd World Aids Day, a research study by the South African Medical R…
South African Medical Research Council launches a wastewater-based early warning system for Covid-19
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has recently established a wastewater-based early warning…
Cape Town | South Africa has the biggest burden of COVID-19 infections in Africa and is the 10th most affected country g…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has released the first National Cause-of-Death Validation…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is part of a study that will measure the unanticipated op…
Cape Town | A three-year collaboration between South African and UK based researchers is set to tackle antimicrobial res…
Cape Town | 28 August 2020 | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) welcomes the recent Positive Opinion ado…
Cape Town | The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the United States set upon a seismographic outcry for so…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Burden of Disease Research Unit regularly publishes the R…
Cape Town | Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths that a…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) regularly publishes the Report on Weekly Deaths in South…
Cape Town | Former President of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Professor Malegapuru William Makgoba…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) have provi…
I wish to thank the Board of the SAMRC for having acted with the requisite urgency in its deliberations over this matter…
The Board of the SAMRC met to discuss the current challenges relating to the media statements made by the SAMRC Presiden…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) supports the National Department of Health in our vision…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is home to some of the country’s leading scientists. Wit…
Cape Town | A group of researchers from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), together with local and inte…
Cape Town | With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa, the value of the South African Population Research…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Gita Ramje…
Cape Town | On 12 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemi…
Cape Town | The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) is working with stakeholders in South Africa, including t…
Cape Town | Obesity is a leading cause of poor lifelong health across the world. In South Africa, one in four girls age…