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Table 11: SAMRC Intramural and Extramural Research Units to the research programmes

SAMRC UNIT/PLATFORM/
RESEARCH SUB- SAMRC RESEARCH UNITS/PLATFORMS/ OFFICE/CENTRE
PROGRAMMES OFFICES/CENTRES DIRECTOR INSTITUTION

Health Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and J Bantjes Intramural Research Unit
promotion Tobacco Research Unit
and disease
Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit C Pheiffer Intramural Research Unit
prevention
Environment and Health Research Unit R Street Intramural Research Unit
Rural Public Health and Health Transition S Tollman University of the
Research Unit Witwatersrand
Violence, Injury and Social Asymmetries A van Niekerk University of South Africa
Research Unit (formerly Masculinity and Health
Research Unit)
Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease M Pieters Northwest University
Research Unit
Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Research A Okoh University of Fort Hare
Unit
Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders N Koen and M University of Cape Town
Research Unit Lochner
Centre for Health Economics and Decision G Davidson University of the
Science - PRICELESS SA Witwatersrand
Antimicrobial Resistance and Global Health P Bessong University of Venda
Research Unit
Maternal, child Gender and Health Research Unit N Jama Shai Intramural Research Unit
and women’s
Development Pathways for Health Research S Norris University of the
health
Unit Witwatersrand
Child and Adolescent Lung Health Research H Zar University of Cape Town
Unit

HIV, AIDS, Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial K Dheda University of Cape Town
TB and other Resistance Research Unit
communicable
diseases Centre for Tuberculosis Research Unit M Marakalala Intramural Research Unit
HIV and other infectious Diseases Research C Orrell Intramural Research Unit
Unit
HIV-TB Pathogenesis and Treatment Research K Naidoo Centre for the AIDS
Unit Programme of Research in
South Africa (CAPRISA)
Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics S Madhi University of the
Research Unit (formerly Respiratory and Witwatersrand
Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit)
Office of AIDS & TB Research F Abdullah Intramural Office
Office of Malaria Research Group R Maharaj Intramural Platform
Antibody Immunity Research Unit P Moore National Institute of
Communicable Diseases
Intersection of Communicable Disease and N Ntusi University of Cape Town
Infectious Disease Research Unit M Ntsekhe

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