About me

I’m an Associate Professor and Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where I teach and supervise postgraduate students, and undertake research on a range of issues related to migration and health. I am the former Vice-Chair and Expert Member of the global Migration Health & Development Research Initiative (MHADRI).

I am also Director of the African Universities Research Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence in Migration & Mobility and its African Academy for Migration Research (AAMR).

I am the co-Director of the Global Health Research Group on Disrupting the cycle of gendered violence & poor mental health among migrants in precarious situations (GEMMS).

I co-Direct the ARUA-Guild Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Migration & Health that addresses the key scientific challenge of identifying and developing solutions, relevant to the social, cultural and political contexts, to address the root causes of poor health among migrants to enhance the positive health outcomes of migration across one of the largest migration corridors globally, the African Union (AU) – European Union (EU) corridor.

I coordinate the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa (maHp)

My research is concerned with the two politically – and publicly – unpopular issues of migration and health.  As a result, they’re issues that are urgently in need of improved policy and programmatic responses.

As a public health researcher with a commitment to social justice, my research explores ways to generate and communicate knowledge to improve responses to migration, health and wellbeing.  Fundamental to my research practice is participation in a range of policy processes at international, regional, national and local levels.  This includes exploring approaches to address epistemic injustice in the development of appropriate policy responses.