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10.4.2.17. SWOT Analysis

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
• Corporate governance • Research translation • Develop frameworks for • Diminishing funding for
• Board and EMC working • Diversity Management evidence-based decisions research internationally
relationship • Succession planning and making • Lack of growth in research
• Professional, highly transformation at senior • Revise transformation investment by the South
competent and dedicated levels strategy African government,
staff members • Lack of Biostatisticians • Implement strategies to despite a growing burden
• Academic/research • Lack of synergy between further grow funding of disease and complexity
freedom researchers • Balancing academic and • Research classified as low
• Research outputs • Bureaucratic environment societal impact priority on the political
• Ability to attract local and hampers progress • Collaborations to enhance agenda
international funding • Lack of knowledge sharing health research • Declined expenditure on
• Capacity development • Investment in infrastructure • Move towards full open research and development
• Collaborations with many development access publications as a percentage of Gross
stakeholders • Immediate response to • R&D localisation Domestic Product
• Communication of science emerging national health programmes • Growing trends of
through various media needs and global trends • Conduct transformative predatory journals
platforms and equity orientated • Data Security
• Ethical research conduct research • Scientific misconduct
and integrity • Partnerships to increase • Cyber security
• Neutral convening power innovation and scaling • Overlap in funders of health
• National footprint • Research aligned to research - delineation of
• International reputation country, regional and mandates needed
and standing continental needs • New and re-emerging
• Establish SAMRC diseases
Foundation

10.4.2.17. PESTEL Analysis
POLITICAL ECONOMIC SOCIAL TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL
• Government • Energy security • Social unrests • Internet • Climate change • Environmental
stability and prices • Social cohesion connectivity • Air pollution laws and
• Political conflicts • Exchange rates • Crime rates • Cybercrime and • Renewable energy regulations
• Political • Import duties • Demographic cyber security • Waste • Labour
interference • Infrastructure shifts • ICT infrastructure management laws and
• Government quality • Cultural diversity • Innovation and • Biodiversity regulations
subsidy • Investment in • Public health R&D conservation • Data
• Policy STEM issues and • Automation and AI • Water scarcity protection
continuity/ • Unemployment health system • Grow • Regulatory laws and
uncertainty rates • Education biotechnology compliance regulations
• Systemic inequality • Intellectual
corruption • Gender property laws
• Budget votes inequality • Public SCM
• International • Public laws and
relations awareness and regulations
• Public activism • Health
infrastructure • Social media and Safety
policies and impact laws and
systems regulations
• Regulatory
bodies
• Litigation

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