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‘Mandela’s Children: Securing the health and wellbeing of future generations’

Date : 01 June 2010
Time : 17:30 - 19:30
Location : Johannesburg Hospital Auditorium, Wits Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown

The Health Sciences Research Office at the University of the Witwatersrand invites you to the third Prestigious Research Lecture:

 ‘Mandela's Children: Securing the health and wellbeing of future generations'.

  • Environmental determinants of development: what and how important are they?
  • What do we know about the world with which our children must engage?
  • How do they cope?
  • What can we do to help them?

Speakers: Professors Steve Tollman and Kathleen Kahn (MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit - Agincourt) and Professors John Pettifor and Shane Norris (MRC/Wits Mineral Metabolism Research Unit/Birth to Twenty Programme).

Commentator: Professor Haroon Saloojee, Head of the Division of Community Paediatrics at Wits Faculty of Health Sciences.

Please join us for drinks and a light supper after the lecture.

For catering purposes please RSVP to Ms Manuela Mackay tel +27 (0)11 717 2530 or manuela.mackay@wits.ac.za  by Tuesday 25 May.