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Research Program

Sustained Academic Research and Training Program (SACERT)

Leadership

Gail Wyatt, PhD
Principal Investigator

Norweeta Milburn, PhD
Co-Investigator

Contact Info

SACERT Website

760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA

About

The Sustained Academic Research and Training Program (SACERT) is an international collaboration between UCLA and various universities in South Africa. This grant focuses on training predoctoral students from South Africa for 5 years. The COVAR-COMMS team in South Africa will focus on methods, measure, and findings from their studies and how to present them.

SACERT is very similar to our other international training program Phodiso, which we will be applying for the renewal of. If it is approved, all scholars that have graduated from both SACERT/Tirisano and Phodiso studies will be invited to participate. The other COVAR-COMMS teams could also invite their students and this would result in additional, new collaborations between the COVAR-COMMS countries.

As part of the NIH, the Fogarty International-funded Sustained Academic Research and Training Program (SACERT) grant focuses on training predoctoral students in South Africa for 5 years, the COVAR-COMMS study team will present the methods, measures, and findings obtained from the study. In addition, we will attempt to arrange for the collaboration and overlap of the SACERT-funded meeting in South Africa with that of the COVAR-COMMS meeting.

Team

  • Gail Wyatt, Ph.D.

    Principal Investigator

  • Norweeta Milburn, Ph.D.

    Co-Investigator

  • Alison Hamilton, Ph.D., M.P.H.

    Co-Investigator

  • Sharon Kleintjes, Ph.D., M.Phil

  • Leickness Simbayi, M.Sc., D.Phil.

  • Mashudu Davhana-Maselesele, Ph.D.

  • Tamra Burns Loeb, Ph.D

  • Soraya Seedat

    Professor & Executive Head of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University

Scholars

Cohort 1

  • Mukhethwa Londani, Ph.D. Candidate

    Statistical Analyst, Research and Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology

  • Asanda Boboyi, Ph.D. Candidate

    Lecturer, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha Campus

  • Tshepang Modise

    Lecturer, North West College of Nursing (NWCON)

  • Thabo Arthur Phukubye, Ph.D. Candidate

    Lecturer, Department of Nursing Science, University of Limpopo
Cohort 2

  • Munira Hoosain

    Lecturer, Stellenbosch University

  • Memory Muturiki, MD, MBA

    Head of the Student Wellness Service at the University of Cape Town

  • Mabusela Anikie Motlatso, Ph.D., Candidate

    Professional Nurse, Pietersburg Tertiary Hospital, Renal Unit

  • Khuthala Sigovana, PhD Candidate Lecturer

    Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha Campus
Cohort 3

  • Khalaeng Frans Thobane

    Deputy Director National Department of Health South Africa Mental Health and Substance Abuse Directorate

  • Munyadziwa Muimeleli, Ph.D Candidate

    Professional Nurse at Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre

  • Sumaya Gabriels

    Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences Division of Disability Studies (DSD) in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Cape Town

  • Asandile Mandlana

    Lecturer Department of Social Work at the University of the Western Cape South Africa, Cape Town
Cohort 4

  • Philani Ndlovu, Ph.D. Candidate

  • Xolelwa Dyani, Ph.D. Candidate

  • Katlego Magdeline Rantho, Ph.D., Candidate