Author: Turnwait Otu Michael and Erin McCandless
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Turnwait Otu Michael is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on population health, demography, health governance, sexual and reproductive health, and health in conflict-affected settings, with particular interest in the intersections of conflict, development, and public health across Africa. //
Erin McCandless is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Qatar–South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding (CPIU) at the University of Johannesburg. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Doha. Her research focuses on transformative approaches to peace processes and resilient social contracts, the humanitarian-development-peace-climate nexus, and emerging and non-Western actors in mediation and global governance. Her work bridges rigorous scholarship with high-level policy engagement, including advisory roles to senior UN leadership, political dialogue facilitation, designing and overseeing multi-stakeholder research, and strategic involvement in shaping multilateral peace, development, and governance policy frameworks.
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During the 2018–2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attacks on treatment centres, resistance to contact tracing, and widespread distrust of responders ...
