Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Shakespeare Programme, Lancaster University
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health , Vanderbilt University
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Chief Information Officer at the Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Director: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard University
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Senior Researcher Rural Health in Transition and Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
