Rosemary Jouhaud

Rosemary (Rosie) works as a Scientific Collaborator at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies. She is also completing her FMH Prevention & Public Health specialisation and a PhD with the Institute of Global Health. At the Centre, where she has been collaborating since 2020, first on COVID-19 in humanitarian settings, she has coordinated the Reimagining the Future of Global Health Initiatives study (2023), and a MOOC on Migration and Health Equity (2024). She is a young scholar for the CHH-Lancet Commission on Conflict and Forced Displacement (2024-2026) and the Lancet Regional Health - Europe Commission on Migration and Climate Change (2021-present). She also develops course content for the InZone community health worker certificate of open studies course for refugee camps. Rosie has previously worked on various health workforce projects for the WHO Regional Office for Europe. She is a board member of the Federation of European Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health. Rosie is Canadian and British and speaks fluent French. She holds a degree in medicine from the National University Ireland, Galway and an MSc Global Health from Maastricht University. Rosie is passionate about protecting and improving health at population-level and is particularly interested in health system strengthening for health promotion and disease prevention.