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

international (foreign), 55, 88, 104 Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, 121
intra- and extramural research units, 104 Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and
joint project, 122 Development Partnership, 121
Liver Research Group (UCT), 21 global genetic database, 112
Parliament, 19 Global Health Innovation Accelerator, 122
public and private sectors, 55, 97 Global North, 6, 55
SAAVI project, 59, 60 Global South, 6
Self-Initiated Research Grants, 103 Gluckman, Dr Henry, 4
South African Defence Force, 23 Gold Merit Award, of MRC, 130
state bodies, 19 Gordhan, Dr Bhavna, 133
traditional medicines, 76 Government, 3, 5, 8, 33, 36, 38, 49, 56, 62, 64, 66, 68,
fungal toxins, 24 71, 76, 78, 87-8, 94, 103, 106, 115, 118, 137, 139,
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G Government Chemical and Bacteriological Laboratories
Gabuza, Dr Kwazi, 123 (1902), 3
gastroenteritis, 74 Grant Innovation and Product Development Division,
Gates Foundation, 55, 121 60
Gauteng, 75, 141 Grants Committee, 19
GBV. See gender-based violence Grants Innovation and Product Development Unit, 124
Gear, Professor James, 7 Gray, Professor Glenda, 95, 98-9, 100, 103-4, 113, 121-
Gender and Health Research Group (later Unit), 67, 2, 124, 125, 127, 131-3, 135-9, 142
115, 141 Great Britain, 3
gender-based violence (GBV), 67, 115, 141, 146 GRIPPP. See ‘Get Research Results into Policy,
gene therapy, 112 Practice, Products and Health Promotion’
genetic Groote Schuur Hospital, 5, 84
diagnostic testing, 116 gun control, 68
epidemiology, 116
variations, 31, 117 H
geneticists, 75 Hanekom, Mr Derek, 96
genetics, 30, 75 Heads of International Research Organizations, 121
microbial genetics, 31 health and demographic surveillance sites, 115
molecular genetics, 81 Health and Development Research Group, 68
psychiatric genetics, 112 Health, Deputy Minister of, 90
genome HealthConnect, 118
project, 146 ‘Health for All’ (1978), 29
sequencing, 116 Health Kick Project, 72
whole genome-sequencing platform, 112 Health, Minister of, 11, 15, 18, 43, 50, 54, 61, 95, 127
genomic Health Policy Research Unit, 73-4
analysis, 130 Health Services to Systems Research Unit, 106
biomarkers, 112 health systems research, 42, 72
profile, 130 Health Systems Research Unit, 74, 114, 133, 141
genomics, 75, 112, 114 Health Systems Trust, 48
Genomics of Brain Disorders Research Unit, 112 Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative, 121
Geographic Information System (GIS), 80 heart failure, 75
‘Get Research Results into Policy, Practice, Products Heart Foundation, 21
and Health Promotion’, 92 hepatitis, 25
Ghoor, Ms Samira, 114 hepatitis B, 112
Gillis, Professor Lynn, 28 Herbal Drugs Research Unit, 111, 112
Gknowmix, 124 hereditary diseases, 112
Glaxo (later GlaxoSmithKline), 52, 121 Hickman, Dr Rosemary, 26

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