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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Contact Details
Postal Address: Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, School of Child and Adolescent Health, Red
Cross Children’s Hospital, 46 Sawkins Road, Mowbray, 7700
Tel: +27 21 685 4103
Fax: +27 21 685 4107
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ich
UCT General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111
UCT web: http://www.uct.ac.za
Please refer to the Psychiatry and Mental Health Research
Report for publications by members of the Division: Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Department of Paediatrics
and Child Health
Affiliated Disciplines
Child Health Unit
Director: Rotating Acting Head
Unit Profile
The Child Health Unit’s mission is to contribute to
promoting equity in child health. The core business of the
Unit is directed at children’s public health and community-
oriented child health promotion, protection, care and
rehabilitation.
The target of the Unit’s endeavours is those areas, which
have a strong children’s public health and interdisciplinary
focus, viz. child development and disability, community
nutrition, infectious diseases and health policy and service
development. The Unit has close links with the Children’s
Institute.
Unit Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Associate Professor (part-time)
1
Emeritus Professor (part-time)
2
Specialist
2
Sub-specialist trainees
2
Senior Lecturers (part-time)
6
Lecturers
2
Administrative staff
1
Total
16
Research Fields and Staff
J. Shea
Health promotion and education; the adaptation and
piloting of a behavioural intervention to support HIV+
women in the core domains of health, mental health,
parenting and HIV prevention for use by non-governmental
organizations; an assessment of the feasibility of
intervention trials on tuberculosis prevention in schools in
the Western Cape Province; development of a certificate
course in clinical research.
Department of Paediatrics
and Child Health
Affiliated disciplines
Children’s Institute
Director: Associate Professor Shanaaz
Mathews
Institute Profile
The Children’s Institute aims to contribute knowledge
and understanding to promotion of policies which govern
improvement of child well-being, and fulfillment of the
rights of all South Africa’s children, with special emphasis
on children rendered vulnerable by a range of difficult
circumstances. It addresses the needs and rights of South
Africa’s children through policy research, advocacy and
education and other academic activities that contribute
to improvement in the policy analysis, formulation,
implementation and evaluation processes.
Institute Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
1
Senior Lecturers (Snr Researchers)
6
Lecturers (Researchers)
0
PASS (Administrative)
4
PASS (Scientific and Technical)
3
Total
14
Students
PhD
3
Master’s
5
Total
8