Dr 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.

Fields of interest

• Health systems
• public health policy
• governance
• international relations
• humanitarian action
• infectious disease
• sexual and reproductive health and rights
• planetary health

Publications

James R, Blanchet K, Kumar BN. Lancet Migration European Regional Hub: Working together towards inclusive, evidence-based outcomes for promoting and protecting the health of migrants in the European Region. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe. 2022 Dec 1;23.

Kumar BN, James R, Hargreaves S, Bozorgmehr K, Mosca D, Hosseinalipour SM, AlDeen KN, Tatsi C, Mussa R, Veizis A, Kallayova D. Meeting the health needs of displaced people fleeing Ukraine: Drawing on existing technical guidance and evidence. The lancet regional health-europe. 2022 May 7:100403.

Kamenshchikova A, Margineau I, Munir S, Knights F, Carter J, Requena-Mendez A, Ciftci Y, James RA, Orcutt M, Blanchet K, Veizis A. Health-care provision for displaced populations arriving from Ukraine. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2022 Jun 1;22(6):757-9.

van Daalen KR, Dada S, James R, Ashworth HC, Khorsand P, Lim J, Mooney C, Khankan Y, Essar MY, Kuhn I, Juillard H. Impact of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on health outcomes and use of health services in humanitarian settings: a mixed-methods systematic review. BMJ Global Health. 2022 Jan 1;7(1):e007902.

Odlum A, James R, Mahieu A, Blanchet K, Altare C, Singh N, Spiegel P. Use of COVID-19 evidence in humanitarian settings: the need for dynamic guidance adapted to changing humanitarian crisis contexts. Conflict and Health. 2021 Dec;15(1):1-6.

Kumar BN, Hargreaves S, Agyemang C, James RA, Blanchet K, Gruer L. Reducing the impact of the coronavirus on disadvantaged migrants and ethnic minorities. European Journal of Public Health. 2021 Nov;31(Supplement_4):iv9-13.

James R, Blanchet K, Orcutt M, Kumar B. Migration health research in the European region: sustainable synergies to bridge the research, policy and practice gap. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe. 2021 Jun 1;5.

James R, Theron G, Cobelens F, Engel N. Framing the detection of incipient tuberculosis infection: A qualitative study of political prioritisation. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2022 Apr;27(4):445-53.

Schneitler S, Seebacher J, Matos FB, Aktar I, Lantwin P, Archodoulakis A, Adamczick C, Becker SL, James R. Awareness and perceptions of medical students and doctors regarding Tropical Medicine education and training in Europe: An international, online-based survey. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2022 Jul 1;48:102323.

Rees GH, James R, Samadashvili L, Scotter C. Are Sustainable Health Workforces Possible? Issues and a Possible Remedy. Sustainability. 2023 Feb 15;15(4):3596.

Issa R, Robin van Daalen K, Faddoul A, Collias L, James R, Chaudhry UA, Graef V, Sullivan A, Erasmus P, Chesters H, Kelman I. Human migration on a heating planet: A scoping review. PLoS Climate. 2023 May 24;2(5):e0000214.