Dr Whadi-Ah Parker
Dr Whadi-ah Parker is a Senior Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council. She holds a BSc in Medicine (Hons) in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Cape Town, and obtained a PhD in Medicine from the same institution in 2008.
Before joining the HSRC, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Western Cape, based in the Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit at the South African Medical Research Council.
Her areas of research interest include: nutrition, chronic diseases of lifestyle, public health and health systems. Dr Parker's publication record spans the authoring and co-authoring of fourteen national and international conference presentations, nine book or equivalent publications and nine journal articles. Her most recent work, published in BMC Public Health in July 2012, investigated health promotion services in the public health care sector in Cape Town, South Africa for patients having non communicable diseases.
Prevalence of GBV in South Africa Grant 145924
Core support to the finalization of a national research on prevalence of GBV in South Africa to provide baseline GBV data to government and civil soci....
SAMRC-FORTE - Body size, Mental health, and Inequality: A life course approach (BMI)
SAMRC-FORTE Collaborative Research Programme: SAMRC/FORTE-RFA-01-2016 - Category 3 Phase 2 Applications Joint research project application titled, ??....
The Impact of earthquakes on the sustainability of the Mining Sector in South Africa
Following direction from the CEO the HSRC is conducting a rapid and exploratory study into the impact of earthquakes (and other natural disasters) on ....