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A Widening Idea of Health: The SAMRC from Creation to Covid

193 The Star, 5 September 2006, p. 10.
194 Sunday Times, 7 May 2006, p. 8.
195 Business Day, 7 May 2012, p. 7.
196 Interview with Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, 8 October 2020.

Chapter 5. Slimmer, but Not Lacking Gray Matter: The MRC, 2012–2021
1 Interview with anonymous unit director, 6 July 2022.
2 Interview with Professor Salim Abdool Karim, 6 October 2000.
3 Interview with Professor Salim Abdool Karim, 6 October 2000.
4 MRC, AR 2012–2013, p. 6.
5 These were identified as HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, hypertensive heart disease, tuberculosis,
lower respiratory tract infection, ischaemic heart disease, diarrhoeal diseases, violence, motor vehicle
accidents, diabetes.
6 The Star, 15 September 2012, p. 5.
7 These were the Malaria Unit, Oncology Research Unit, Health Promotion Research and Development
Research Unit, Nutritional Intervention Research Unit, TB Epidemiology and Intervention Research
Unit, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Web and Media Technologies, Programme on Mycotoxins and
Experimental Carcinogenesis, Diabetes Biochemistry Division, Telemedicine, Biomedical Informatics
Research, eHealth Strategy and Policy, and the Unit for Clinical and Biomedical TB Research.
8 These were the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, the Burden of Disease Research Unit, the
Biostatistics Research Unit, the Cochrane Centre, the Environment and Health Research Unit, the
Gender and Health Research Unit, the Health Systems Research Unit, the HIV Prevention Research
Unit, and the Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit. The Diabetes Discovery Platform, the Chronic
Diseases of Lifestyle Research Unit, and the National Programme on Cardiovascular and Metabolic
Diseases were merged into a new Non-communicable Diseases Research Unit, while the Centre for
Molecular and Cellular Biology became an intramural research unit with its focus henceforth on TB.
9 S. S. A. Karim, Revitalising the MRC: Current State of the Organisation and a Proposal for the Way Forward
(MRC, Parow, 30 July 2012), p. 26.
10 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 23.
11 MRC Celebrates Science, February 2013, p. 41.
12 MRC, AR 2013–2014, p. 37.
13 The Star, 6 December 2013, p. 4.
14 MRC, AR 2012–2013, p. 7.
15 Karim, Revitalising the MRC, p. 13.
16 MRC, AR 2013–2014, p. 54.
17 MRC Board Meeting, Minutes of Special Meeting, 7 September 2012, p. 4.
18 MRC Board Meeting, Minutes of Meeting, 30 October 2013, p. 16.
19 The Lancet, 383, 9926 (19 April 2014), p. 1371.
20 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 7.
21 MRC, ‘Perception Survey Analysis’ (2015), p. 24.
22 MRC, ‘Summary Report for Employment Survey’, 15 February 2016, p. 1.
23 Interview with Professor Ali Dhansay, 9 November 2020.
24 MRC Board Minutes, Minutes of Meeting, 29 May 2014, p. 4.
25 MRC, AR 2014–2015, p. 9.
26 Interview with Dr Niresh Bhagwandin, 15 March 2022.
27 http://www.phru.co.za/researchers/66-gray.
28 https://www.topbusinesswomen.co.za/interview-glenda-gray/.
29 Emeritus Professor Wieland Gevers cited in The Lancet, 383, 9926 (19 April 2004), p. 1371.

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