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About Institute for Life Course Health Research

We conduct research that provides evidence about what works to improve mental and other health and wellbeing outcomes for parents, children, adolescents, and adults in low-resource communities in and beyond South Africa. The Institute for Life Course Health Research is housed within the Department of Global Health, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. WHAT WE DO Through our work, we aim to generate evidence on prominent factors that stand between individuals, families and communities and their improved health and well-being. We work closely with communities to develop relevant and acceptable interventions that seek to address issues such as caregiver mental health, early child development, HIV/AIDS, adolescent mental health, sexual and reproductive health, alcohol abuse, violence and trauma. WHERE WE WORK The Institute largely operates from a central research hub, situated in Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town, where the team has worked for more than 12 years. ILCHR works across South Africa and the sub-continent, having run projects in Lesotho, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Nigeria. OUR MISSION At ILCHR, our mission is to work upstream in the prevention cycle so that individuals, families and communities can minimise or overcome the harmful effects of adversity. Through a life course perspective, we aim to work more strategically to build resilience at crucial “tipping points” in a person’s life, to prevent patterns of disadvantage from affecting multiple generations.