Moving can change the conditions that shape health, so health and social policy must plan for a mobile population.
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Agincourt, the University of the Witwatersrand’s rural research centre 500km from Johannesburg, has documented the lives of 120,000 people over decades.
Rapid population ageing has prompted researchers to study disease trends in older South Africans. The aim is to understand the role that specific health conditions play in ageing among rural people.
Research done over the past 26 years
provides insights into changes across people’s lives, helps evaluate interventions, and provides information for local, provincial and national planning.
When people migrate they can end up worse off when it comes to getting access to health care. Analysing migration trends can help drive local public health policy towards the correct targets.
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Professor: Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher in Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Demography, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Associate Professor (Reader), Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University
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Assistant Professor in Urban Public Health, UMass Boston
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Senior Researcher Rural Health in Transition and Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard University