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Fri, 12 Jul 2019 - 14:30
Congratulations to Liz Gwyther, Hanne Haricharan, Lorna Olckers, Tammy Philips and Ingrid van der Heijden on graduating with their PhDs on Friday 12 July 2019.
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 - 10:15
The Academic Ranking of the World's Universities has released its latest rankings in Public Health, and it's exciting to see UCT ranked in the range 50-75.
Fri, 05 Jul 2019 - 12:45
Congratulations to Ntsiki Mapukata and Marsha Orgill on being awarded the 2019 FHS Start-up Emerging Researcher Award.
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 - 08:45
Congratulations to the Occupational Medicine Division and the Groote Schuur Hospital Team on receiving the "Team Carer of the Year" Award at the GSH 80th Anniversary Excellence Award function on 22 June 2019.
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 - 11:15
Congratulations to Itumeleng Ntatamala, Occupational Medicine Registrar, on being listed on the Mail and Guardian 200 young South Africans charting new territories in work and health.
Wed, 05 Jun 2019 - 09:30
Congratulations to Professor Aqiel Dalvie on the renewal of the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) in Global Environmental Health for the next five- year cycle.
Fri, 31 May 2019 - 09:30
The Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) hosted the May Staff Tea with an Africa Day theme.
Tue, 28 May 2019 - 10:45
E-cigarettes are heavily promoted as a ‘healthy’ alternative to smoking tobacco as advanced in an article in Daily Maverick, 14 May 2019.
Mon, 20 May 2019 - 12:45
The Occupational Medicine Division recently hosted the screening of the much acclaimed documentary film ‘Dying for Gold’. The film explores the real cost of deep level gold mining in South Africa over the past century, and the legacy of occupational lung diseases such as silicosis and/or tuberculosis, death, poverty and inequality that has left its indelible mark on the Southern African continent.
Fri, 17 May 2019 - 13:45
A recent report in Croakey, an online independent in-depth social journalism platform for health, recently featured research from the Public Health Medicine Division in collaboration with colleagues in Australia.
Tue, 07 May 2019 - 12:30
Professor Hanna-Andrea Rother handed over the prototype of a flip chart developed by her Street Pesticide project to the City of Cape Town on 03 May 2019.
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 - 15:00
The Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics recently donated over 100 packs of new born nappies to the Neonatal Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital for moms in need.
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