South Africa’s environmental health workers play a vital role in helping communities respond to climate change.
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Religiosity has been associated with lower alcohol, drug use and risky sexual behaviours in young people in the Western Cape.
Kenya’s LGBTI community will have to wait a while longer for the High Court’s ruling on whether it will decriminalise homosexual relationships.
Nigeria’s health systems are overwhelmed and incapable of sustaining high quality disease surveillance, prevention, control and response.
Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency to combat rape and sexual violence.
The global cancer burden especially in developing countries is exacerbated by the high cost of treatment.
Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
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Once crops have been harvested, farmers experience wastage and loss of food all over Africa.
Only half of Kenya’s 47 counties achieved the 2000 goal on reducing child mortality
Little effort has been made to improve the quality control of the seed supply chain as a whole in Uganda.
STI prevention was largely driven by HIV prevention. With changes in HIV prevention initiatives that don’t really take into account other STIs, there’s need to refocus STI prevention.
Opening up positions of political power to women will lead to effective and better implemented development policies.
Effective communication strategies will be crucial if scientists want to counter the worrying anti-vaccination trend.
Data science is going to grow over the coming decades and requires trained graduates who can handle the work.
Because insects are an affordable and local food source rich in protein, they can be used as a meat replacement.
The new Ebola vaccine is yet to be licensed but evidence shows that it protects against the strain of the virus.
Mental health care for teen mothers is not part of routine health facilities in Nairobi’s informal settlements.
Without the current experimental vaccine the Ebola outbreak in the DRC has the potential to spiral out of control.
African newsrooms are using media analytics to study their audiences but there’s a downside.
Women are drastically under-represented in the science, technology, engineering and maths fields.
Principais colaboradores
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
