We have a range of capacites and skills working at TARSC or in TARSC programmes, including public health and epidemiology, biomedical, health policy, medical sciences, participatory and formal research skills, statistics, savings methodologies, social science, material development, information scienes, accounting and computing. We co-operate with institutions that provide IT, economics, legal, labour relations and other relevant skills. We promote networking nationally and regionally to build interdisciplinary approaches to community issues.

We believe in building capacities of working people – those working at TARSC and those we work with.

TARSC has areas of particular strength and experience, such as in work on participatory research and training, in public health research and training and in community, health systems responses to HIV and AIDS.