HDSS provides a research platform for the Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit). Research themes include: health and social systems; adolescent health and development; adult health and wellbeing; and social and environmental determinants. HDSS has platform for research and evaluation trends and transitions.
The publications section has research outputs including peer-reviewed journal articles; research reviews; reports; book chapters; research journal editorials or commentaries; conference presentations & posters; dissertations and theses; web-based data publishing, and much more.