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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
in Public Health Law and Rights in partnership Research Translation
with the Mandela Institute at the University of the Through Arts and Science
Witwatersrand. Many of our staff supervise master’s
and PhD candidates. Our staff have the opportunity We have developed interactive ways of engaging
to attend courses locally and globally focusing on our with children and young people to research their
key research areas and methodologies, including a engagement with unhealthy food advertising. Two of
month-long residence at York University. All our staff our staff were involved in the production of "Chew on
are encouraged to study; we currently have three PhD This "a video series looking at food policy for a public
candidates and are supervising many more. audience. We have often appeared on radio and
television to communicate our research to the public
Navigating the Impact of US and held a public exhibition in the Adler Museum
Executive Orders on Funding about the History of unhealthy food in South Africa
with large visual aids.
Fortunately, they haven’t had a significant impact on
us directly as we only receive funding from the NIH for
one project which is still running. We have no other
US funding.
The Research Unit continues to run the Health Economics stream of the master’s in public health at the
University of the Witwatersrand.
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