Research Nuggets
2024 Nuggets
- Mobile technology use in clinical research: Examining challenges and implications for health promotion in South Africa
- Comparing low sodium salt substitutes: Results of taste and visual tests in South African adults
- Ultrasound scans as risk rituals in obstetric prenatal care in South Africa
- Using text-Based WhatsApp vs face-to-face interviews to understand early school dropout
- Investing in the home and community can protect children’s futures
- SA households are facing food insecurity, causing anxiety and depression
2023 Nuggets
- Socioeconomic position, weight, lifestyle risk, and multimorbidity
- Mental health needs among pregnant and parenting adolescent girls
- Feasibility of home-based hypertension and physical activity screening by CHWs i
- The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on South African Frontline Healthcare Workers
- Experts call for clampdowns on exploitative formula milk marketing
- The impact of HIV and ART exposure during pregnancy on fetal growth
- Effects of Lockdowns on Alcohol and Smoking Behaviour
- FIGO Nutrition Checklist
2022 Nuggets
- Mental health risk in South Africa
- Socially vulnerable groups at greater risk for food insecurity
- Rural Households’ Perceptions of Rooftop Solar Photovoltaics
- COVID-19 and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Africa
- Protecting South Africa’s Human Capital
- Food insecurity and coping strategies
- Rethinking WASH
- COVID-19 and the informal economy in South Africa
2021 Nuggets
- The age of the academic entrepreneur
- Mental Health: an African perspective
- The slow violence of malnutrition
- Nutritional labelling of fast food
2020 Nuggets
- The meaning of a young woman’s sexual and reproductive health In modern day SA
- The elderly are an asset and must be treated as such
- What is land if not somewhere to live a life of value?
- COVID-19 shows how important it is for RESEARCHERS to tell their stories
2018 Nuggets
- Few safe places for South African children
- Behind stats: the real picture of fatherhood in SA
- Why child’s body size really matters
2017 Nuggets
- Science on the airwaves (conversations about sexuality, identity and healthy relationships)
- Brain matters (connecting disciplines to contribute to neuroscience in Southern Africa.)
2016 Nuggets
- Breastfeeding – no substitute
- Breastfeeding – the best investment for you, me, our children and our world
- Child Rights in South Africa – Policy vs Delivery
- The Child Support Grant – a life-line for millions
- Children in South African families: lives and times
- Nurturing care – the basis for life-long health and wellbeing
- Father (dis) Connections
- Fewer guns – fewer deaths
- Parent care and feeding count
- What families do – more important than who is in them
- Youth Explorer – mapping the way to youth wellbeing