Focus areas of cardiovascular medical device research in South Africa.

Psychiatric research in South Africa: a systematic review of Medline publications.

BACKGROUND There is debate about the future path that medical and psychiatric research in South Africa should take. In particular, there have been calls to make research more relevant to the needs of the population. There is, however, little systematically collected data on the nature, strengths, and flaws of past psychiatric research in this country. METHODS We undertook a MEDLINE search to ...

Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Early Dialogue, Broad Focus and Relevance: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to lead exposure in South Africa in 2000.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the burden of disease attributable to lead exposure in South Africa in 2000. DESIGN World Health Organization comparative risk assessment (CRA) methodology was followed. Recent community studies were used to derive mean blood lead concentrations in adults and children in urban and rural areas. Population-attributable fractions were calculated and applied to revised burd...

Building local capacity for genomics research in Africa: recommendations from analysis of publications in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2013

Background The poor genomics research capacity of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) could prevent maximal benefits from the applications of genomics in the practice of medicine and research. The objective of this study is to examine the author affiliations of genomic epidemiology publications in order to make recommendations for building local genomics research capacity in SSA. Design SSA genomic epidem...

To what extent does South African mental health and substance abuse research address priority issues?

OBJECTIVE To investigate the extent to which South African mental health research addresses priority issues. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of conference presentations. SETTING The most recent conferences of the following professional societies: the Epidemiological Society of Southern Africa, the Psychological Society of South Africa, the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa, and the Sou...