CSIR ScienceScope: Research for improved health

Abstract

In this edition of ScienceScope has chosen to focus on the CSIRs impact, and intended future impact, on health. The edition features some of the research approaches and progress in relation to the so-called diseases of poverty: malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, but also refer to studies that may influence decision-making and public-health policy. It outlines some advances in enabling technologies for health and look at research undertaken to ensure the safety and health of some 350 000 mine workers who earn their living in conditions that require continual health and safety-related interventions.