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Migration and Health in the WHO-Afro Region: A Scoping Review

Vearey, Jo. (2023). Migration and Health in the WHO-AFRO Region: A Scoping Review. African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), WITS University and World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa [REPORT].

Abstract:
This scoping review has been undertaken in order to improve understanding of the state of knowledge in the field of migration and health in the WHO-AFRO region. The objective is to identify literature on migration and health in the WHO-AFRO region that has been published since 2016. Given that the WHO-AFRO region includes three official languages – English (ENG), Portuguese (PT) and French (FR) – the review covers published literature in each of these three languages. Two existing, unpublished WHO-AFRO reports – both dated 2018 – were provided by the WHO-AFRO office and included in the review. This scoping review also contributed to the World Report on the Health of Refugees and Migrants.

About Jo Vearey

Jo Vearey is a Professor and the Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She holds an Honorary Fellowship with the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Senior Fellowship at the Centre for Peace, Development and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In 2015, Jo was awarded a Humanities and Social Science Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. Jo holds a MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases (LSHTM, 2003), a PhD in Public Health (Wits, 2010), and has been rated by the National Research Foundation as a Young Researcher. In 2014 and 2015, Jo received a Friedel Sellschop Award from the University of the Witwatersrand for outstanding young researchers. She was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in 2013, at the UNESCO Chair on Social and Spatial Inclusion of Migrants, University of Venice (SSIM-IUAV), Venice, Italy.

With a commitment to social justice and the development of pro-poor policy responses, Jo’s research explores international, regional, national and local responses to migration, health, and urban vulnerabilities. Her research interests focus on urban health, public health, migration and health, the social determinants of health, HIV, informal settlements and sex work. Jo is particularly interested in knowledge production, dissemination and utilisation including the use of visual and arts-based methodologies.

Jo has a range of international collaborations, including an ESRC-NRF funded project with the University of Edinburgh, a WOTRO funded project with the VU University, Amsterdam on migration and sex work, and partnerships with the University of Massachusetts Boston and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine‘s Faculty of Public Health and Policy and Gender, Violence and Health Unit.

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