About the CoRE
The Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Migration & Health will address 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.
The corridor includes countries in Africa, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean and is associated with multiple risk factors for health, determined by varying structural and social contexts. These factors are experienced differently by diverse migrant groups and the communities through which they move, live and work; and change across time and places of origin, transit, destination; and, for some, return.
In an increasingly nationalist, xenophobic, and racist world, the varied forms of population movements that connect origins and destinations within and between countries along the AU-EU corridor, and associated health concerns, need to be better understood to develop evidence-informed and contextually relevant interventions, including cross-border interventions.
The CoRE in Migration & Health is co-led by Jo Vearey (African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) & the ARUA Centre of Excellence in Migration & Mobility, WITS University) and Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Child Health and Nutrition and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Migration and Health Data and Evidence, Uppsala University).
The CoRE initiative involves multiple partners and is supported by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of Research-Intensive European Universities.