UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Research Entities in the Faculty of Health Sciences

 

Each entity is based in one of the Schools of the Faculty of Health Sciences and has a Director or Leader. Six of the Faculty's entities are co-recognised by the Medical Research Council of South Africa (MRC).

The research entities based in the Faculty of Health sciences and currently recognised by the University and Faculty Research Committees include:

 

School/Entity Director/Leader
School of Clinical Medicine
Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism Research Unit    Professor Derrick Raal
Clinical HIV Research Unit    Professor Ian Sanne
 Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (MRC)
    Professor Shane Norris
 Effective Care Research Unit    Professor Justus Hofmeyr
 Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Programme    Professor Anna Kramvis
 Perinatal HIV Research Unit    Professor Glenda Gray
 Pulmonary Infections Research Unit    Professor Charles Feldman
 Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit    Professor Karen Sliwa
 Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute    Professor Helen Rees
School of Pathology
  Antiviral Gene Therapy Research Unit    Professor Patrick Arbuthnot
  Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit (MRC)
    Professor Himla Soodyall
  Malaria Entomology Research Unit    Professor Maureen Coetzee
  Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (MRC)
    Professor Keith Klugman and Professor Shabir Madhi
School of Physiology
 Bone Research Unit (MRC)    Professor Ugo Ripamonti
 Brain Function Research Group    Professor Andrea Fuller
 Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit    Professor Gavin Norton
School of Public Health
 Centre for Health Policy/Health Policy Research Group (MRC)
    Dr Jane Goudge/Professor Laetitia Rispel
 Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (MRC)
    Professor Stephen Tollman

 

 

Research Thrusts

The University seeks to provide support to work being done in specific broad fields, known as research thrusts, in which there is Institution-wide strength. The Faculty supports two thrusts at present:

 

Molecular Biosciences Research Thrust

Faculties of Science and Health Sciences

 

Championed by Professor Chrissie Rey and Professor Michele Ramsay

Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle

Faculty of Health Sciences

 

Championed by Professor Karen Sliwa and Professor Nigel Crowther

 

Centres of Excellence

The Faculty is home to several Centres of Excellence: