Michelle, a social science researcher with a background in psychology joined the School of Public Health in 2018. In January 2021, Michelle was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the school.
She has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on topics related to gender and health systems including gender mainstreaming in government programs, gender and human resources for health, an intersectional analysis of drinking during pregnancy, and multi-sectoral and community approaches to preventing alcohol abuse. She has also been involved in a political economy analysis of adolescent mental health and a gendered analysis of adolescent health policies in South Africa. Future research plans are focused on respectful care for women and children’s health with a particular interest in patient/provider communication and media constructions of health and gender. She teaches on the MPH programme on the Globalisation and Health module and the Qualitative Research Methods module. At SOPH she also actively contributes to the adolescent and sexual and reproductive health cluster and the health policy and systems cluster.
Her blogs include:
- Mapping of potential case studies on gender integration in government health programs across Africa, South Asia and South East Asia
- Uncovering the diamond in the rough: Selecting promising cases of gender integration in government health programs across Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia
- No perfect place. Published in the HSG Blog
- Visas: A regressive tax on LMICs. Published in the HSG Blog
