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Research Translation To create awareness of good nutrition and
Through Arts and Science lifestyle choices among young school children,
Dr Raghubeer led a community event at the Shiloh
In the reporting period, the unit communicated their Centre of Learning in Bellville. Here, young primary
research findings by writing an article for the online school children were exposed to good lifestyle
publication The Conversation. This is an online and nutritional choices through interactive games.
newspaper that reports on research and is aimed The unit aims to make this an annual event and
at the broader public. This article was republished include other schools in the area. Other methods
by several other media houses and resulted in over to reach broader audiences include having an
30000 reads both locally, in Africa and internationally. active presence on social media platforms such as
The Co-director as well as the first author Dr Prince Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
were invited to talk about the findings on both
radio and television stations, which were positively
received and resulted in participation by the public
and also an interesting and insightful debate.

To create awareness of good nutrition and lifestyle choices among young school children, Dr Raghubeer led
a community event at the Shiloh Centre of Learning in Bellville.

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