Who we are

We are experts in health and human performance. At our core is our ability to take our leading scientific expertise and apply it with excellence to all our diverse services, clients and students. This means that understanding human performance and health in a variety of contexts is at the heart of everything we do.

Why we exist (Our Dream)

Our dream (vision) is to become a self-sustaining world-class Centre, renowned for high quality, professional multi-disciplinary services, training and research.

Our General Key Focus Areas

  • Service delivery
  • Training and supervision of postgraduates and interns (Psychology and Biokinetics)
  • Academic training of undergraduate and postgraduate students
  • Active research and supervision of applied research students

Our purpose

Ensuring that all our Institutes are driven by a clear and transparent business strategy and are aligned with the NWU values and relevant mission elements. We will reach Our Dream by:
 
  • Being competitive and current in our services and processes
  • Fostering quality clinicians/ staff by focusing on personal & professional development 
  • Ongoing quality professional networking
  • Always aiming to be better than the industry standard 
  • Effective marketing of all our services

Vision of the CHHP

To become an internationally recognised and growing centre of excellent Health and Human Performance, enhanced by fostering inter-, multi- & trans-disciplinary collaboration between the Institutes and its members, as well as the identifying, sharing and implementation of best practices to the benefit of its clients (athletes, sporting teams and the broader community). This will be achieved by maintaining an ethical approach, enhancing staff development and research opportunities, as well as making its impact on its relevance in health indispensable.
We aim to develop and sustain the holistic client-athlete of all ages and spectres by providing the ultimate professional service experience through an ethic of care, in order to create healthy, loyal, life–long customer advocates that will promote the services of the Centre for Health and Human Performance thorough all three existing Institutes.