Health Sciences Teaching and Learning Office

The Health Sciences Teaching and Learning Office is a unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Its publication record centres on child mortality surveillance, postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling, paediatric infectious disease and diagnostic accuracy. Work in the CHAMPS network addresses pneumonia, meningitis, malnutrition, neural tube defects and invasive group B Streptococcus, with attention to cause-of-death attribution, pathogen identification and vaccine-relevant immunology. A further strand concerns interprofessional education and curriculum integration in health professions training.

Research is oriented towards low-resource settings and health systems improvement, with studies of infection control and policy-relevant evidence. Country detail in the data is limited, but the surveillance and educational work is set in South Africa and comparable settings.