Page 72 - SAMRC Annual Report 2024-2025

MATERNAL, CHILD AND
RESEARCH
PROGRAMME 2
WOMEN'S HEALTH

PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME PROGRAMME STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

To improve the health status and quality • To conduct and promote research for the
of life of women and children through improvement of maternal, child and women’s
high-quality scientific research that informs health, while also making an impact on gender
policy and practice, improves health inequity and gender-based violence (GBV).
services and promotes health. • To train and mentor high calibre postgraduate
students in the field of maternal, child and
women’s health.
UNITS THAT CONSTITUTE THIS PROGRAMME
• To synthesise evidence, optimise information
and knowledge flow, influence policy and
1. Child and Adolescent Lung Health
Research Unit (ERU) practice within the health sector and other
sectors of government in relation to issues
2. Development Pathways for Health affecting maternal, child and women’s health.
Research Unit (ERU)
• To develop interventions for prevention
3. Gender and Health Research Unit (IRU) of gender-based violence for testing and
evaluation of effectiveness in affected
communities.
• To test or evaluate interventions (programmes)
to prevent GBV and reduce maternal and
neonatal deaths in primary and secondary
levels of care

70 SAMRC ANNUAL REPOR T 2024-25