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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

15th World Conference Injury Prevention & Rising Tide of Homicide in Mpumalanga.
Safety 2024.

Jose Chidassicua and Dr Casimiro Macucha, on Building Capacity Through
child sexual assault; intimate partner violence and Training, Mentorship, and Support
HIV; and incarcerated women's accounts of their
intimate partner violence. Dr Macucha, a current VISARU uses a multifaceted approach to offer a range
PhD student, won the best oral presentation award of capacity development opportunities to build and
in the early to mid-career researcher in the violence strengthen safety, peace and health promotion
prevention category. research and intervention capacities. This includes
a dedicated training and capacitation portfolio
VISARU's continental visibility was enhanced headed by a senior staff member; the supervision
through Prof Van Niekerk coordination of the injury and mentorship of postgraduate students registered
workstream in the Africa CDC's Non-Communicable for master's and doctoral studies; placements for
Diseases, Injuries Prevention and Mental Health doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and research
Promotion Division. VISARU's national presence master's internships; and the provision of research
was strengthened through several activities. It and community-engagement training for emerging
successfully hosted "Towards the 2030 Violence and mid-level researchers working as permanent or
Prevention Agenda", an injury mortality surveillance contract staff.
colloquium in Mpumalanga, highlighting research on
injury surveillance and injury patterns in Mpumalanga. VISARU training and capacity development
VISARU also published several studies with specific opportunities allow senior researchers to grow and
prevention implications, including "Is methanol a cultivate capacities in specific injury and safety-
clean, efficient, healthy and safe cooking solution for related niche areas and to develop scientific and
Africa?", which highlights key safety considerations of organisational leadership capacities. In 2024,
methanol adoption, in the light of the fuel's toxicity. VISARU hosted two students in a Master's Internship

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