Established in 1993, the School is unique in many respects both in South Africa and in the continent.
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Academic programme, popular in South Africa and other African countries for its flexible, modular, part-time design and growing array of distance learning materials. School offers post-graduate diploma, Masters and PhD programme in public health.
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Annual Summer and Winter Schools, probably the largest continuing education programme in Public Health in Africa, trained over 12000 participants since 1992.
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Designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Human Resource for Health Development since 2004
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Hosts two SARChi chairs in Health Systems, Complexity and Social Change; and Health Systems Governance.
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Houses the UWC Centre for Research in HIV and AIDS (CRHA).
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Most research focuses on health policy and systems, social determinants of health, building a district-based public health system, and pharmaceutical public health.
