School of Public Health

The School of Public Health is a school in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It includes departments and centres for Community Health, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health, and Public Health, along with the Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (PRICELESS SA), the Centre for Health Policy, and the Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt).

Its research strengths lie in HIV prevention and treatment, mental health, maternal and child health, gender-based violence, and health policy and health economics. Publications cover PrEP implementation, intergenerational violence, dementia care, disability, ageing and health workforce wellbeing, with applied, policy-relevant scholarship in these areas.

Further themes include health systems and equity, community-based interventions, disaster research and spatial modelling. The research is focused mainly on South Africa, with work extending across the African continent.