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

Coloureds, 28, 32, 47, 108 school closures, 137
Colvin, Dr Mark, 65 Surge Testing Initiative, 128
commercialization, 50, 65, 78, 92 testing, point-of-care, 128
Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and tobacco, 139, 146
Arbitration (CCMA), 98 ‘trust triangle’, 140
Committee for Research in Medical Sciences (CRMS), 5 Twitter, 141
communicable diseases, 108 vaccine hesitancy or refusal, 141
community engagement, 106 waste-water, infected, 130
community health, 47, 49 CRMS. See Committee for Research in Medical
comparative risk assessments, 113 Sciences
conference centre, 37 crystal methamphetamine. See ‘tik’
CORIS. See Coronary Risk Factor Study CSIR. See Council for Scientific and Industrial
Coronary Risk Factor Study (CORIS), 18, 21, 23, 146 Research
coronary risk factors, urban Africans, 47 cyclotron, 29
Corporate Affairs Division, 86 cytogenetics, 31
Council, 3, 5-6, 13, 14-15, 18-20, 42, 61-2, 65, 74, 86-
91, 96-7, 99 D
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), dagga, 70
4-6, 8, 11, 29 Datuk, Mr Tan Sri, 82
Covid-19, 117, 127-8, 129, 132-3, 133, 137-40, 140, 141, de Oliveira, Professor Tulio, 130
154n71 de Wet, Dr Carel, 5, 7, 15
anti-Covid-19 vaccine, 131, 142 death certificate, revised, 82
anti-viral drugs, 131 debt crisis, 36
antidote, 131 Delft, 51, 59, 153n36
AstraZeneca vaccine, 131 democracy, 73
Beta strain, 130-1 dental caries, 25
clinical trials, 131 Dental Research Unit, 14
co-morbidities, 139 Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
conference, virtual, 140 (DACST), 55, 77, 81
crisis, 142 Department of Education, 83
dashboards, 139-40 Department of Health, 8, 11-12, 19, 21, 47, 79, 88, 90-1,
deaths, 138-9 136-7
epidemic, 127, 135, 138. See also pandemic Department of Home Affairs, 62
financing, 128, 145 Department of National Health (DoH), 38, 49, 55, 90
government policy criticism of, 138-9 Department of Neurosurgery (UCT), 85
Johnson & Johnson anti-Covid-19 vaccine, 131 Department of Public Health, 3-6, 8
liquor, 141 Department of Science and Innovation, 127
lockdown(s), 128, 133, 136, 139, 141 Department of Science and Technology, 88, 115
masking, 132-3 Department of Social Development, 71
mortality data, 139 Depo-Provera, 118
mRNA vaccines, 131 Derman, Dr Wayne, 48
non-pharmaceutical interventions, 133 Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, 68
Omicron strain, 130 Dhaliwal, Dr Rupinder, 120
Oxford AstraZeneca anti-Covid-19 vaccine, 131 Dhansay, Professor Ali, 90-2, 93
pandemic, 127-31, 135, 137, 139-40, 140, 141-2, diabetes, 25, 28, 32, 72, 75, 86, 94, 108
145. See also epidemic Diabetes Discovery Platform, 78, 94
reagents, 128 Diabetes Research Unit, 94
regulations, 133, 136-7, 139, 141 diagnostics, 97, 130
research, 128 Diarrhoeal Pathogen Research Unit, 74
SARS-CoV-2, 129-130 Die Burger, 21

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