CoRE Migration and Health
Migration – involving diverse movements of people within and between countries and regions, including refugees – is a key determinant of health. Still evidence-informed policy and programme responses to address migration and health remain limited.
In line with The Guild Position paper on health research (2022) and the AU-EU Innovation Agenda, Migration and Health CoRE addresses the key scientific challenge of Migration and Health across the AU-EU migration corridor. This corridor is associated with multiple health concerns determined by a range of structural and social factors that are experienced differently by diverse migrant groups and communities, through which they move, live and work.
The Migration and Health CoRE will develop collaborative research to generate evidence-informed, cross-country policy approaches to support good health. The focus is on migrants and migration-impacted communities along the AU-EU migration corridor, as well as efforts towards Universal Health Coverage.
Jo Veary and Carren Ginsburg, both University of Witwatersrand and Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Uppsala University, lead the cluster, which is provided coordinating support by Jecinta Okumu from the Forum for Africa Studies.