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School of Social Sciences

Staff Directory

Professor Sandy Gifford

Sandy Gifford

Director, Refugee Health Research Centre;
Research Manager, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture

Room: Martin Building 461
Tel: +61 3 9389 8919 (Mon/Tues)
Tel: + 61 3 9479 5797 (Wed/Thur/Fri)
Fax: +61 3 9479 2705
Email: s.gifford@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA, MPH, PhD, University of California

Sandy Gifford is the Director of the Refugee Health Research Centre in the School of Social Sciences. Sandy's background combines medical anthropology and public health with a focus on refugee wellbeing and resettlement. Sandy has had a long standing commitment in refugee health having served on the Committee of Management for the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture for ten years. In 2001, she helped to facilitate the development of the Research Unit at the VFST which lead to the establishment of the Refugee Health Research Centre – a partnership between the VFST and La Trobe University.

Publications

List of recent publications

Teaching

  • ANT2/3DDD: Displacement, Development and Disadvantage Study Tour
  • ANT2/3DFR: Displacement, Flight and Refuge
  • Honours elective, Globalization to Localization: Rethinking the dilemmas of displacement, flight and resettlement

Graduate Supervision

She has supervised more than 20 postgraduate students who have carried out their research in medical anthropology, public health and refugee studies.

List of PhD students

Research Projects

List of research projects

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Last Updated: 8 November, 2007