Medical Research Council of South Africa & The Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa

University of South Africa
Institute for Social and Health Sciences
PO Box 1087
Lenasia, 1820
South Africa

The Institute for Social and Health Sciences and its partner at the Medical Research Council are focused on conducting and disseminating research into the causes and consequences of crime, violence and unintentional injuries with a view to advancing primary injury prevention.

VPA focal person

Professor Mohamed Seedat
Tel: +27 11 857 1142
E-mail: seedama@unisa.ac.za

Mohamed Seedat is a professor in the College of Human Sciences at University of South Africa. He is currently Director of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Violence and Injury Prevention Research and Training. He also heads the National Presidential Lead Programme on Crime, Violence and Injury in South Africa, a joint collaboration between the Medical Research Council and the University of South Africa. He was a career-development fellow at Yale University (1989 – 1990) and a visiting professor at the prestigious Indian Institute for Technology, New Delhi, India (July 2002 – May 2003). Mohamed Seedat is also the Editor-in-Chief of African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention.

Mohamed Seedat’s research activities have centred around the injury prevention research-policy nexus, violence and injury prevention, participatory development, the politics of knowledge production, and indigenous perspectives to peace promotion. Mohamed Seedat’s community-based work has centred around technologies for equitable systems of knowledge creation in injury prevention.