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KEY CONTRIBUTORS Edition two | March 2025
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DR SEBENZILE NKOSI THE COMMUNITY ISSUE
Mental Health Alcohol Substance Use and Tobacco Research
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DR YANDISA SIKWEYIYA
Gender and Health Research Unit
PROF JASON BANTJIES
Mental Health Alcohol Substance Use and Tobacco Research
Unit
DR BRIAN MUNANSANGU
Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform
PROF CATHERINE EGBE, MS SIPHESIHLE GWAMBE &
MRS ARSHIMA KHAN WHY DOES PROSTATE CONFRONTING HEALTH THE HIDDEN CRISIS
CANCER DESERVE OUR STIGMA IN A MODERN FUELING VIOLENCE IN
Mental Health Alcohol Substance Use and Tobacco Research ATTENTION? SOCIETY SOUTH AFRICA’S COLLEGES
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DR NIRESHNI CHELLAN
Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform WHY BOPHELO?
PROF CARADEE WRIGHT The ability to preserve time can be attributed to a number of things,
Environment and Health Research Unit
matters that are within our control and those things we cannot control.
DR WANGA ZEMBE, MS DONELA BESADA, MS FUNEKA Within this, our biggest consideration is how we care for our health.
BANGO, PROF TANYA DOHERTY, DR CATHERINE EGBE, Taking care of our health requires having the right information on
PROF CHARLES PARRY, DR DARSHINI GOVINDASAMY,
DR RENEE STREET, PROF CARADEE WRIGHT, AND DR hand, even from the research science that informs solutions. Most of
TAMARA KREDO. the time acquiring that information occurs when our health is already
Health Sytems Research Unit, Mental Health Alcohol compromised, and we need to know how to deal with the outcome. We
Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit, and the preserve time so that we can experience more of life, sustainably. Doing
Environment and Health Research Unit this in a country facing numerous challenges, including high rates of
PROF ZODWA DLAMINI HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and non-communicable diseases while still
SAMRC/UP Precision Prevention & Novel Drug Targets for trying to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic.
HIV-Associated Cancers Extramural Unit
PROF NAEEMAH ABRAHAMS, DR NWABISA SHAI The SAMRC plays a crucial role in addressing these challenges through
Gender and Health Research Unit
its research and science advocacy. Efforts made to lead in this area,
DR KIM JONAS and also in such a pivotal time demands cutting across communication
Health Systems Research Unit lines to reach the South African population. This magazine is a SAMRC
Isi-Xhosa translation: Dr Nontuthuzelo Somdyala Corporate Marketing and Communications effort, to reach you with the
research science, that will equip you with health information to advance
SeTswana translation: Dr Monnamme Tlotleng
your life. Taking up a new strategic approach to speak to various
audiences in what we hope translates into the most possible simplicity.
Compiled by SAMRC Corporate and Marketing
Bophelo meaning Life, is one way of building on the idea that health
Communications
research science concerns us all, enabling conversations where there’s
an understanding of the kind of research being done on health and
related social issues.
Yours in service:
The South African Medical Research Council
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