Dr Neusa Torres.
Post-doctoral researcher at Wits.
Neusa Torres is a public health–oriented social sciences researcher, passionately exploring sociocultural factors that shape health-seeking decisions and behaviours. She holds a Doctorate in Public Health (2020) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Her research centres on health-seeking behaviours and people’s lived experiences at the crossroads of public health and the socio-behavioural sciences. She explores women’s and children’s health, sexual and reproductive health, migration, healthcare practices, and medication use.
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Dr Fehmida Rabanni
post Doctoral researcher at Wits university
Dr Fehmida Qaddus Rabbani is an urban and human geographer specialising in migration, mobility, urban inequality, climate-related migration, and migration-health research within Global South contexts. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ACMS, University of the Witwatersrand, CoRE in Migration & Health. Her current research examines how healthcare decision-making among South Asian migrants is shaped by transnational obligations and everyday experiences of mobility, belonging, and exclusion. Her work develops the concept of the “weight of elsewhere,” contributing to interdisciplinary debates in migration studies, urban geography, and transnationalism. She also contributes to postgraduate teaching and academic seminars on migration, belonging, inclusion, and exclusion.
Dr Ishmael Adjei
post doctoral researcher from University of Ghana
Dr. Ishmael Adjei holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from Dokuz Eylul University, an M.Sc. in International Relations from Eskisehir Osmangazi University, and a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Ghana. Currently, he is an Early-Career Research Fellow with the African Research Universities Alliance at the Cluster of Research Excellence in Migration & Health at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, as well as a Research Fellow at the Center for Migration, Citizenship and Development, Bielefeld University, Germany.
Gifty Sarkodie Amponsah
Doctoral student at University of Ghana
Gifty Sarkodie Amponsah is a PhD student at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana, whose research focuses on forced displacement, gender, health and structural inequalities in access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services among displaced populations in West Africa. Her work critically examines how infrastructure, policy, and social systems shape the health and lived experiences of displaced women and vulnerable communities, particularly in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia. She is interested in migration governance, health, humanitarian policy, gender-based violence and rights-based approaches to displacement and social protection.
