Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)

The Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) is a department within the School of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Its research centres on rural public health and health transitions, with a strong emphasis on population health surveillance and epidemiology. Work in the unit also addresses health and demographic surveillance and maternal and child health.

Further themes include HIV and chronic disease within rural settings, alongside social and environmental determinants of health. The research is focused on South Africa, particularly rural communities in the Agincourt area of Mpumalanga, where long-term surveillance and community-based studies are conducted.