Migration, Displacement and Health staff

Lorena Nunez

Lorena Núñez is a Medical Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at ACMS. With extensive experience in the fields of gender and development and of migration and health, she is currently working in the Migration, Displacement and Health project and in the Religion and Migration Research Initiative at ACMS.

Marlise Richter

Marlise is a visiting researcher at ACMS and is currently enrolled for a PhD in public health at the International Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Ghent (Belgium). Her research focuses on health and human rights, with a particular focus on sex work and sexual and reproductive health rights.

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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.

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Migration, Displacement and Health project at the ACMS. Matthew completed his doctorate in Development Studies at the University of Oxford in 2011. The doctorate was a qualitative study focused on the sociality and sustainability of HIV/AIDS treatment in internally displaced communities in Northern Uganda.