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Biographical Background

Jo Vearey is an Associate Professor at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, where she is involved in designing and coordinating research programmes, teaching, and supervising graduate students.  Jo is a South African National Research Foundation rated researcher and member of the South African Young Academy of Science.  Supported by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, Jo has established the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa (maHp).  With a commitment to social justice, Jo’s research explores ways to generate and communicate knowledge to improve responses to migration, health and wellbeing in the southern African region.  Fundamental to her research practice is Jo’s participation in a range of policy processes at international, regional, national and local levels.  Jo is exploring the role of public engagement in the development of appropriate policy responses, including the use of mixed methods approaches that involve various publics in the co-production and application of knowledge to affect change.

Selected recent journal publications:

• Vearey, J., de Gruchy, T., Kamndaya, M., Walls, H., Chetty-Makkan, C., Hanefeld, J. (2016) Exploring the migration profiles of primary healthcare users in South Africa. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health DOI: 10.1007/s10903-016-0535-7   OPEN ACCESS

• Vearey, J., Barter, C., McGinn, A. (2016) Research ethics in practice: lessons from studies exploring interpersonal violence in different contexts Journal of Families, Relationships and Societies DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14673790283737

• Dill, L., Vearey, J., Oliveira, E. and Martinez Castillo, G. (2016) “Son of the Soil…Daughters of the Land”: poetry writing as a strategy of citizen-making for lesbian, gay, and bisexual migrants and asylum seekers in Johannesburg AGENDA 30(1) 85-95 OPEN ACCESS

• Scheibe, A., Richter, M. and Vearey, J. (2016) Sex work and South Africa’s health system: Addressing the needs of the underserved South African Health Review 19 165-178 OPEN ACCESS

• Walls, H., Vearey, J., Modisenyane, M., Chetty-Makkan, C., Charalambous, S., Smith, R. and Hanefeld, J. (2016) Understanding healthcare and population mobility in southern Africa: The case of South Africa. South African Medical Journal 106(1):14-15. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i1.10210 OPEN ACCESS

• Oliveira, E. and Vearey, J. (2015) Images of place: Visuals from migrant women sex workers in South Africa  Medical Anthropology DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1036263

• Kamndaya, M., Vearey, J., Thomas, L., Kabiru, C. and Kazembe, L. (2015)  Material deprivation, consumerism and agency influence the decisions to engage in transactional sex among young people in Blantyre slums, Malawi Global Public Health DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1014393  OPEN ACCESS

• Vearey, J. (2014) Healthy migration: A public health and development imperative for south(ern) Africa South African Medical Journal 104(10) 63-664. DOI:10.7196/samj.8569  OPEN ACCESS

• Myroniuk, T. W and Vearey, J. (2014) Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg: Differential Advantages and Unexpected Outcomes among Internal Migrants, Foreign-Born Migrants, and Long-Term South African Residents.  International Migration Review 48(1) 243-273
• Vearey, J. (2013) HIV, population mobility, and the post-conflict nexus: unpacking complexity International Peacekeeping (20)4  439-449 DOI:10.1080/13533312.2013.846135

• Vearey, J. (2012) Sampling in an Urban Environment:  Overcoming Complexities and Capturing Differences Journal of Refugee Studies doi: 10.1093/jrs/fes032

• Vearey, J.  (2011)  Challenging urban health: towards an improved local government response to migration, informal settlements and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa Global Health Action 4: 5898 - DOI: 10.3402/gha.v4i0.5898  OPEN ACCESS

• Vearey, J. (2011) Learning from HIV: exploring migration and health in South Africa  Global Public Health  DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2010.549494

• Vearey, J., Palmary, I., Thomas, L., Núñez L. and Drimie, S. (2010) Urban health in Johannesburg: the importance of place in understanding intra-urban inequalities in a context of migration and HIV Health and Place 16 694  - 702  OPEN ACCESS

• Vearey, J. (2010) Hidden spaces and urban health: exploring the tactics of rural migrants navigating the City of Gold  Urban Forum  21 37 – 53

• Vearey, J. (2008) Migration, access to ART and survivalist livelihood strategies in Johannesburg African Journal of AIDS Research 7(3) 361 – 374

Selected recent book chapters

• Vearey, J. (2016) Mobility, migration and generalised HIV epidemics: a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. In: Thomas, F. (ed) Handbook of Migration and Health. Edward Elgar Publishing: UK

• Oliveira, E. and Vearey, J. (2016) ‘Know me! But, remember that this is only part of who I am’: a participatory photo research project with migrant women sex workers in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa.  In: Arnold, M. and Meskimmon, M.  (eds) Homeland:  Migration, Women, Citizenship. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool

• Richter, M. and Vearey, J.  (2016) Migration and sex work in South Africa:  key concerns for gender and health.  In: Gideon, J. (ed) Gender and Health Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing: UK

• Vearey, J. and Richter, M. (2015) A World Class African host for whom? Implications of hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup on the lived experiences of migrant sex workers in Johannesburg, South Africa.  In: Bonini Lessing, E. (ed) Design practices for urban safety and security.  Il Poligrafo:  Padova

• Vearey, J. (2013) Migration, urban health and inequality in Johannesburg.  In:  Migration and Inequality.  Bastia, T. (ed).  Routledge: London

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