Wits endowment will fund research into health inequalities

A donation by an alumnus will go towards exploring “the social determinants of health inequalities”‚ the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) said. “While much of the research on inequality has focused on its link with poverty‚ what has been missing is an understanding of the political forces and social conditions that allow inequality to increase‚" the statement announcing Professor Aubrey Sheiham and his wife Dr Helena Sheiham’s R8.