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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

RCD Scholarships Portfolio Master’s Scholarships in the field of Biostatistics/
Statistics (GHRU) aimed at enhancing statistical
The scholarships portfolio at RCD comprised of
main scholarship programmes as listed in the modelling capacity among women researchers and
table above. During this reporting period, RCD students, and the SAPRIN Nodal PhD Fellowship
has also assisted with the administration of several (SAPRIN) aimed at advancing knowledge and
scholarship programmes hosted by different SAMRC capacity development in SAPRIN nodes. All RCD
units i.e., the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation scholarship programmes are aimed at developing
Scholarship programme (GIPD) which is aimed at and transforming health research capacity in SA. The
building biomanufacturing capacity in Africa, the funded scholars within our programmes are mainly

Scholarship awards by gender Scholarship awards by ethnic group
(2024-2025) (2024-2025)

8%
6%
29%

22%
64%
71%

Female African Indian
Male Coloured White

Scholarship awards by institution (2024-2025)

22

16
15

11
10
9

5
4 4
3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 2
UCT SU WITS UP UWC UKZN SAMRC SMU UL NWU UNIVEN UJ WSU UFH UFS MUT Rhodes CPUT EU
IMUs

Distribution of SAMRC scholarships by institution in 2024/25

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