28.02.2022
In a statement in early 2022, the WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus identified:
“ I want to make behavioural insights an essential part of how we promote and ensure better health for all. As the global public health leader, WHO cannot achieve its ambitious goal of transforming global health and the health of more than 7 billion people without a clear understanding of people’s health-related behaviours.
We have the responsibility of creating systems and environments that are informed by behavioural science.“
In support of this statement, ...
10.02.2022
ONLINE WORKSHOP
28 - 30 MARCH 2022
This course covers the dilemmas and challenges that researchers face during the course of research from planning through to publication. The aim is to assist researchers in navigating the ethical issues that can arise. The course includes a component on online research and use of social media in view of the changes that the Covid-19 epidemic has entailed for research design and procedures in many settings. This is an interactive course; it will include a discussion of ethical and non-ethical research as well as participants...
09.12.2021
HEARD is making research accessible to young people through reducing text density and creatively presenting the research through snapshots. Watch and read the following snapshot of the research findings from Zambia.
https://youtu.be/S4omKs5hE-k
06.12.2021
UKZN Behavioural Scientist and Director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) since 2011, Professor Kaymarlin Govender delivered his inaugural professorial lecture under the title: Preventing HIV Among Young People in Eastern and Southern Africa: Progress and Challenges in Addressing Psychosocial and Structural Drivers of Risk.
Govender has been a researcher and technical advisor for the past 25 years on health programming in sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Read more
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01.12.2021
World AIDS Day is a timely reminder that HIV remains omnipresent, despite our attention being diverted to other pressing public health issues, most recently COVID-19 and identification of the new strain, Omicron. Despite significant prevention strides made over the past two decades, sub-Saharan Africa is home to the largest number of people living with HIV in the world. Countries within the region have made substantial progress in combatting HIV; HIV testing, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) have been rapidly scaled up. W...
23.11.2021
Recent research over the impacts of Covid-19 responses has shown that marginalised populations have been disproportionately negatively affected in terms of health, economic and social well-being. Across the globe, civil society and academia has been vocal in raising attention to the high levels of discrimination and harassment by state officials and the livelihood needs of sex workers. In the sub-Saharan African setting, there is an absence of research that seeks to understand the impacts of COVID-19 between and within groups of young people of all genders who sel...
09.11.2021
HEARD is looking to appoint a suitably qualified person to lead the migrant and refugee research agenda under our
SRHR programme. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in qualitative research methods, and expertise in
women’s health, with a special focus on vulnerable populations and cross-cutting issues such as gender-based
violence. The post requires an analytical and critical thinker who is highly adept at working in cross-cultural
environments.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• A relevant PhD (Social Sciences, Applied Human Sciences, Development S...
04.11.2021
HEARD is looking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on a 1-year fixed-term scholarship commencing January 2022. The purpose of the scholarship is to support HEARD in its role on focusing on psycho-social and behavioral issues associated with adherence to ART among young people living with HIV. Focal Area: SHRH/HIV programming, specifically focusing on psycho-social factors associated with Antiretroviral Adherence among People Living with HIV and members of sexual minority populations.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• A PhD in a relevant discipline (psychology,...
05.10.2021
HEARD is making research accessible to young people through reducing text density and creatively presenting the research through snapshots. Watch and read the following snapshot of the research findings from Mozambique.
https://youtu.be/QoCKqEe_BBM
12.08.2021
A recent speaker in HEARD’s PhD webinar series was Janet Fleischman, who is a senior associate with the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she focuses on women’s global health and US policy. The title of her presentation was ‘Five years of DREAMS and what lies ahead.’
DREAMS is an acronym for Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe and is a programme that was initiated on World Aids Day in 2014 as a partnership between the public and private sector. The DREAMS initiative aims ...
