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The Faculty consists of three schools with 11 departments, focussing on promoting health and social wellbeing through education, research, and community engagement.
Our Faculty advances patient-centered care, interprofessional education, and health research through collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches.
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Our mission goes beyond producing fit-for-purpose professionals and shaping the sectors we serve. Our Faculty is driving transformative change through stakeholder engagement and commitment to serving society.
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We are building a network of change agents committed to creating a better and more equitable society through partnerships and collaboration.
We foster and encourage engagement with communities, continuously exchanging knowledge and resources to promote sustainable outcomes, while working together to improve societal well-being and create transformative impacts in both academic and social practices
Transdisciplinary transcends traditional academic boundaries by integrating diverse perspectives, knowledge systems, and methodologies for holistic problem-solving. Internationalisation is promoted through partnerships that focus on a global student body, internationally oriented staff, curricula, and research, fostering a globally engaged university.
Mandela University in collaboration with The Hope Revolution Vision (THRV), Stellenbosch University, the University of the Western Cape (UWC), and Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT), recently hosted a three-day Substance Abuse Awareness Programme, at Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape.
Reasons to be Proud - #R2bP: Moved by her grandmother’s suffering from a hospital-acquired infection, master’s in environmental health student Yolanda Mbalentle Mngcongo took a deep dive into her heritage to explore how indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants can be combined with nanoscience to combat modern healthcare challenges.
Mandela University’s Research Week intensified efforts to make research more accessible, authentic, accurate, while impactful, in the recently held 3MT competition.
“The purpose is to create schools that meet the needs of learners and families by integrating community resources and support. It also offers services, such as health care, afterschool programmes and other services that would bring improvement to the schools,” Dr Silindile Malangeni said on the third day of Nelson Mandela University's Research Week.