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Bulled, Dr. Nicola

Nicola Bulled is a public health anthropologist. Her scholarship interrogates health inequalities, using mixed methods to examine the intersection of biology with the social to offer multi-level perspectives on public health programming, service delivery, and policy. Her specific fields of interest include HIV, infectious diseases, disease prevention technologies, health communication, and community collaboration.  She has engaged in research and public health programming in South Africa, Lesotho, Liberia, Greece, and the United States. Her research has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Fulbright IIE. 

Occupation: Public health anthropologist
Countries of expertise: Greece, Lesotho, Liberia, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America

Karekwaivanane, Dr George Hamandishe

Lecturer in African studies at Edinburgh University with extensive experience researching, writing and teaching on the history, politics, and cultures of Southern Africa.

Occupation: Lecturer in African Studies, University of Edinburgh
Countries of expertise: Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Leclerc-Madlala, Suzanne

Professor Leclerc-Madlala is an anthropologist whose research and publications since 1995 have focused on the intersections of culture, sexuality, gender and HIV in Africa, especially in South Africa and in relation to young women’s vulnerability. Her academic work as former Professor and Head of the Anthropology Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal was complimented by active involvement in the design, implementation and evaluation of HIV programs in South Africa and its neighboring countries. Dr. Leclerc Madlala retired as Senior Advisor for HIV and Health with the US Agency for International Development and currently serves as an Affiliated Senior  Researcher with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Professor Leclerc-Madlala got her start in development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon.

Prof Leclerc-Madlala has worked as a consultant to UNAIDS, SADC, the World Bank, and WHO, as well as to several regional non-government organizations and community-based organizations. She helped to draft South Africa’s Sexual Offences Act and the Children’s Bill and authored UNAIDS’ 2009 Action Brief on Inter-generational and Transactional sex in Southern Africa. She worked with the Commission on Gender… Read more

Occupation: Anthropologist- Senior Advisor
Countries of expertise: Gabon, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe