Transformation Strategy
Our new strategy for the period 2022 – 2026 will adopt a broader definition of Transformation, that speaks to a multi-dimensional approach. Our new approach will strengthen our drive for employment equity and “grow our own timber” (SAMRC President, Professor Glenda Gray, March 2022), and simultaneously place emphasis on the need to ensure that we are fit for purpose in a 21st century increasingly associated with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (a VUCA world), as has been the case with the global COVID-19 pandemic and the social unrest of July 2021.

To this end we have embarked on a programme of intrapersonal development, that seeks to build traits such as resilience, agility and creativity, and assist all employees in the identification of their strengths and areas of development to increase their personal and our institutional prospects of flourishing. We expect our strategies to increase our prospects of successfully competing for dwindling resources, expand the South African pool of health scientists, help deliver excellence in the health sciences and ensure that our research leads to health benefits for South Africans.