The Health of Refugees
Public Health Perspectives from Crisis to Settlement
Second Edition
Edited by Pascale Allotey and Daniel Reidpath
Author Information
Edited by Pascale Allotey, Director, UN University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), and Daniel Reidpath, Professor of Population Health and Director, South East Asia Community Observatory, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
Professor Pascale Allotey is the Director of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), the UN think tank on global health which addresses, among other things the policy implications of populations on the move. She has a multidisciplinary background in clinical health sciences, anthropology, and epidemiology. Her research has focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, health equity, health and human rights, gender and social determinants of health, forced migration and marginalisation, infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases. She has worked across four continents to promote health and well-being with a focus on engagement of communities.
Daniel D Reidpath is Professor of Population health and founding Director of the South-East Asia Community Observatory, a demographic and health surveillance site and community based research platform of Monash University in Malaysia. Daniel is a Social Epidemiologist and has worked extensively in the measurement of population health, health systems, social marginalisation, social stigma and equity. He has extensive research experience across Asia, Africa and the Pacific and has pioneered technologies for community surveillance and health assessments in rural and remote communities. He has published extensively in medical sociology, public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
Contributors:
Pascale Allotey, International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), United Nations University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Daniel D Reidpath, South East Asia Community Observatory, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia.
Susan Kneebone, Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia.
Michael Toole, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Kudzai Kanutu, Dorothey Institute, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Karin Leder, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Monash University, Clayton, Australia.
Beverley Ann Biggs, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Peter Ventevogel, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland.
Xavier Pereira, Taylor School of Medicine, Malaysia.
Saruna Vergis, Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Derrick Silove, School of Psychiatry, Brain Sciences University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Saruna Vergis, Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Suseela Balasundram, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Rajat Kosla, Department of Reproductive Health, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sandra Krause, Sexual and Reproductive Health Program, Women's Refugee Commission, New York, USA.
Mihoko Tanabe, Sexual and Reproductive Health Program, Women's Refugee Commission, New York, USA.
Susan Bissell, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, New York, USA
Jacqueline Baba, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Anuska Ataullajan, Centre for Global Child Health,The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada.
Micelle F. Gaffey, Centre for Global Child Health,The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada.
Paul B. Spiegel, Gastroenterologist, Centre for Global Child Health,The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada.
Zulfiqar A. Butta, Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada.
Veena Pillai, Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Alison Mosier-Mills, Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
Kave Kosnood, Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
Celia McMichael, Schoool of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Caitlin Nunn, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,Durham University, Durham, UK.
Micael Grodin, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Sondra Crosby, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
George Annas, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Debora Zion, South East Asia Community Observatory, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia.
Peter Mares, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.