Jo Vearey
Researcher

Jo Vearey has been based with the Health and Migration Initiative at FMSP since 2007 where she conducts research, teaches and supervises graduate students. Jo has a background in Public Health and completed her PhD through the School of Public Health, Wits. Her PhD research investigated the urban health challenges of migration and informal settlements in the context of HIV, through which she generated a revised approach to guide appropriate local level developmental responses. Additionally, Jo is coordinating a regional research project funded by the Health Economics and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. This research is exploring the impact of knowledge around the “key drivers” of HIV on youth prevention programming in Southern Africa.

Publications

Nunez, L., Vearey J., & Drimie S. (2011).  Who cares? HIV-related sickness, urban-rural linkages, and the gendered role of care in return migration in South Africa. Gender and Development. 19(1), 105-114.
Thomas, L., Vearey J., & Mahlangu P. (2011).  Making a difference to health in slums: an HIV and African perspective. The Lancet. 377,
Vearey, J. (2011).  Challenging urban health: towards an improved local government response to migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. Global Action Health. 4, 1-9.
Vearey, J. (2011).  Migration and Health in South Africa: Implications for Development. (Aurelia Segatti, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Contemporary Migration to South Africa: A Regional Development Issue. 121-136.
Richter, M., & Vearey J. (2011).  Submission to the Global Commission on HIV and the Law.
Mahlangu, P., Vearey J., & Thomas L. (2011).  Addressing HIV in informal settlements and the critical role of local government in achieving targets set in the NSP 2012 - 2016: Submission to Zero draft of the National Strategic Plan 2012 - 2016. 1-8.
Vearey, J., & Wilhelm-Solomon M. (2011).  Deportation and Public Health: Concerns around the ending of the Zimbabwean Documentation Process. 1-14.
Vearey, J. (2011).  Jo Vearey interviewed on Global Outlook Show [Radio Islam] 3 October 2011.
Vearey, J., Wheeler B., & Jurgens-Bleeker S. (2011).  Migration and health in SADC: A review of the literature. 1-67.
Vearey, J., Richter M., Núñez L., & undefined (2011).  South African HIV/AIDS programming overlooks migration, urban livelihoods, and informal workplaces. African Journal of AIDS Research . 10(3 (supplement)), 381–391.
Vearey, J. (2011).  Learning from HIV: Exploring migration and health in South Africa. Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice. 6(3), 1744-1706.
Vearey, J., & Nunez L. (2011).  Towards improving forced migrant access to health and psychosocial rights in urban South Africa – a focus on Johannesburg. 1-12.
Vearey, J., Oliveira E., Madzimure T., & Ntini B. (2011).  Working the City: experiences of migrant women in inner-city Johannesburg. Southern Africa Gender and Media and Diversity Journal. 9, 228-233.
Vearey, J. (2010).  Hidden Spaces and Urban Health: Exploring the Tactics of Rural Migrants Navigating the City of Gold . (Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Loren B. Landau, Ed.).Urban Forum (Special Issue: Towards Creating Inclusive Cities: Experiences and Challenges in Contemporary South Africa). 21(1), 7-53.
Vearey, J., Palmary I., Thomas L., & Nunez L. (2010).  Urban Health in Johannesburg: The Importance of Place in Understanding Intra-Urban Inequalities in a Context of Migration and HIV. Health & Place. 16(4), 694-702 .
Vearey, J. (2010).  Migration and Health Delivery Systems in Southern Africa. Open Space: On the Move: Dynamics of Migration in Southern Africa . 3(3), 17-23.
Vearey, J., & Nunez L. (2010).  Migration and Health in South Africa: A review of the current situation and recommendations for achieving the World Health Resolution on the Health of Migrants. 1-67.
McCarthy, K., Chersich M. F., Vearey J., Meyer-Rath G., Jaffer A., Simpwalo S., et al. (2009).  Good Treatment Outcomes among Foreigners Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 20(12), 858-862.
Vearey, J., Nunez L., & Palmary I. (2009).  HIV, Migration and Urban Food Security: Exploring the Linkages. Renewal Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food Security South Africa Report. 1-264.
Vearey, J. (2008).  Migration, Access to ART, and Survivalist Livelihood Strategies in Johannesburg. African Journal of AIDS Research. 7(3), 361-374.