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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

PUBLIC HEALTH

INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAMME 5

PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME

To promote the improvement of health and quality of life (impact prevention of ill health,
improvement of public health and treatment) in the Republic of South Africa through
innovation, and technology development and transfer.

UNITS THAT CONSTITUTE THIS PROGRAMME

1 Biomedical Research and Innovation 4 Herbal Drugs Research Unit (ERU)
Platform (IRU)
2 Drug Discovery and Development Research 5 Pan African Centre for Epidemics Research
Unit (ERU)
Unit (ERU)
3 Genomics Platform (IRU) 6 Primate Unit and Delft Animal Centre (IRU)

PROGRAMME STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

• To establish key modern technology (enabling) • To strengthening research and development to build
platforms to facilitate generation of new drug discovery on and enhance public health innovation.
knowledge through world-class applied research. • To increase the body of scientific knowledge through
• To establish and manage research laboratories and research translation into products, patents, research
facilities as state-of-the-art national research facilities papers, policy, practice and health promotion
for research and development. (including to the general public).
• To train and mentor a new generation of high-quality • To increase the number of health-care innovations
postgraduate students and Postdoctoral Fellows in and to produce patents based on new discoveries
multi-disciplinary research, and in so doing, equip and new research methodologies.
them to compete in the science and/or education
sectors nationally and internationally.

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