College of Human Sciences
Effectual partnership to advance public health knowledge
Participants at the research training workshops
On 29 August 2025, Unisa, in collaboration with the Tshwane District Research Committee and sister universities around the Tshwane District, conducted research training workshops designed to equip healthcare workers in the district with extensive knowledge on public health.
The sister universities - the Sefako Makgatho University, the University of Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and Unisa - have a commonality of offering public health academic subscriptions. Some of the healthcare workers are also studying towards health sciences qualifications, and they participated in the workshops by posing questions around master’s and doctoral research, among others.
Attendees connecting at the workshops
Unisa staff members, including Marang Tebogo Mamahlodi, lecturer in public health at Unisa’s Department of Health Studies under the College of Human Sciences, provided training on different topics. The topics included qualitative and quantitative research planning, research data management, research data analysis and the dissemination of research reports.
This is an annual initiative, developed to equip healthcare workers with understanding and knowledge of how to carry out research in their designated working environments and beyond. Therefore, the initiative empowers the workers with relevant skills to increase research impact within the healthcare sector.
The programme participants, hailing from various primary and secondary healthcare facilities, had the common objective of comprehending what scientific research is and what it take to carry it out in public health institutions.
Led by the Tshwane District Research Committee, also known as the district’s Institution Review Board (IRB), and various other partners will also host the 12th Tshwane Scientific Research Conference on 18 and 19 September 2025, at the Tshwane Leadership and Management Academy (Premos) next to TUT.
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We say, halala to the effective milestone!
* Marang Tebogo Mamahlodi, Lecturer, Department of Health Studies
Publish date: 2025/09/08
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