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About AGINCOURT
The School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand established the Health and Population Division in 2002, headed by Professor Stephen Tollman. The Division has both educational and research components. The Division s main research arm - the Agincourt Health and Population Unit (AHPU) has been active in important health, demographic and health systems research since the early 1990 s. In 2002, the Agincourt Unit was recognised as a Medical Research Council/ University of the Witwatersrand Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt). This is the first and only recognized unit in Public Health. Read more.
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Adult Health and Wellbeing
The dynamics of health transition are reflected in the burdens affecting rural adults. Studies are occurring in epidemiology and treatment of epilepsy as well as the health and wellbeing of ageing populations.
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Theme Leaders:
Steve Tollman
Xavier Gomez-Olive
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Child Health and Development
In rural South Africa morbidity, mortality and growth failure associated with malnutrition exist alongside female obesity and emerging cardiovascular disease. By tackling proximal issues of infant growth and nutrition, and social and emotional development in children, we aim to impact more distal outcomes including cognitive development, educational attainment, and adult metabolic disease. |
Theme Leader:
Kathy Kahn
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Demographic Levels, Trends and Transitions
This theme seeks to understand dynamics of demographic and epidemiological change in rural populations undergoing rapid and multiple transitions, and to identify the forces driving that change.
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Theme Leaders:
Mark Collinson
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HIV and Chronic Care
The Agincourt Unit is examining the immediate and longer term impacts of HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy roll-out. This work will support provincial and national efforts and provide evidence on delivery models, coverage and individual and population impacts of ARTs.
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Theme Leaders:
Steve Tollman
Xavier Gomez-Olive
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Household Responses to Shocks and Stresses
Rural households remain under pressure. Sudden shocks, whether job loss or death of a breadwinner, can destabilise households; similarly, protracted stresses such as drought or chronic illness can undermine coping capacity and livelihoods. Key to understanding how to improve health and social development is to examine the strategies employed by households to gain livelihoods and cope with shocks and stresses.
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Theme Leaders:
Mark Collinson
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Academic citizenship award 2011 - Kathy Kahn
Kathy Kahn is an associate professor in the School of Public Health and senior scientist in the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt). She is the recipient, for the second time, of the Vice Chancellor’s Academic Citizenship Team award. Kahn and Sharon Fonn, Head of the School of Public Health, formed the team from Wits which, together with colleagues in Africa, set up the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA).
Recognizing that individual African universities and countries lack the requisite human, financial and infrastructural capacity to single-handedly develop globally-competitive doctoral programmes, they worked with colleagues in Africa to set up this southern-led, north-south collaboration. CARTA is an initiative bringing together, under one banner, African universities, research organizations and northern partnerships in the field of expertise they share, that of population and public health.
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Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Citizenship Team Award 2010
The Agincourt team was awarded the 2010 Vice-Chancellor’s Team Academic Citizenship Award. The award carries with it a grant of R40,000 which will be used by the team to further develop our teaching and academic citizenship work that was conducted in 2009.
The LINC office (Learning, Information Dissemination & Networking with the Community) aims to improve local, district and provincial access to and use of research results and to add value to the research conducted in the site. Read more.
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| The purpose of the Data Section website is to provide information about and increase access to the health and demographic data collected by the Agincourt Health and Population Unit, namely, the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System (AHDSS). Access the data section. |
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