Economic modelling shows that policies to reduce chronic diseases can have large economic benefits –A$4.5 billion a year for diabetes alone – by reducing health costs and boosting the workforce.
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Lifestyle factors are the most significant cause of cancer, and fears surrounding carcinogens is deviating attention away…
Watching television for an average of six hours a day could shorten life expectancy by almost five years, according to a study we published today in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. What’s more…
Ever since the global financial crisis, “value for money” has become the slogan of choice for international aid. The Americans have been in the lead, changing the rhetoric and practice of how they give…
In the last few decades, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled globally, making the combination of type 2 diabetes and obesity (known as diabesity) the largest epidemic the world has…
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Prof, Haematology and blood transfusion, University of Nairobi
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Head Anthropologist at the Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Course coordinator for postgraduate level Certificate in Ergonomics, Rhodes University
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Deputy Vice Chancellor in-charge of Research, Innovation and Outreach, KCA University
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Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Post-doctoral fellow, University of British Columbia
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Senior research associate, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Professor (Hon) at Monash University, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Researcher, Health Coaching, University of Dundee