Research Publications
Our researchers publish across health geography, water security, health systems and equity — in Ghana, Kenya, Canada and beyond. Follow any name through to their full, continuously updated publication record.
Directors
Elijah Bisung, PhD
Health geographer working on the social and environmental production of health and well-being — collective action, environmental stress, and water insecurity and sanitation across sub-Saharan Africa.
Joseph Kangmennaang, PhD
Health geographer studying how the places we live, work and play shape population well-being — non-communicable disease, and Black immigrants’ health in Canada and the United States.
Researchers
Urbanus Azupogo
Schistosomiasis and water contact in lakeside Kenya, water security, land tenure, disability and arts-based methods.
Miesha Polintan
Intersectionality, (dis)trust in health systems, HIV services, sexual and reproductive justice, and health access and equity policy.
Scholar profile pending
Julius Jebuni
Climate change, WASH, health and wellbeing — gender-based violence and water and sanitation insecurity in Ghana.
Pascal Meho-Akakpo
Health inequities in the Global South — how health policies, interventions and programmes address hidden inequities in rural Sub-Saharan Africa.
Alumni
Meshack Achore, PhD
Health inequities and the socio-environmental production of health — water and food security, community and environmental health, and the evaluation of large-scale interventions.
Erynn Monette
Medical anthropology and community-based participatory methods — rural health, palliative care in Belize, infectious disease and global health equity.
Mary Ajayi
Black health and wellbeing, social determinants of health, immigrant health, sexual and reproductive health, and intersectionality.
Scholar profile pending
Megan Fleming
Risk communication and message framing — how wildfire reporting shapes community risk perception, and knowledge translation for population health cohorts.
Scholar profile pending
Alhassan Siiba
Non-communicable disease, climate change, globalization of food systems, travel behaviour and urban planning.