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Rosemary James

Scientific Collaborator, Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies

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Rosemary has been a Scientific Collaborator at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies since January 2024. In 2023, Rosemary coordinated the Reimagining the Future of Global Health Initiatives study on behalf of the Centre, funded by The Wellcome Trust. Since September 2020, Rosemary has been a founding member and acting coordinator of the Lancet Migration European Regional Hub, which is hosted by the Centre. In 2021, Rosemary worked on an InZone needs assessment and course content design targeted to community health workers in displaced settings. Outside the Centre, Rosemary has worked on various health workforce projects for the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe as an independent consultant. She is a board member of the Federation of European Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH), and co-lead for their Working Group on Tropical Medicine and Global Health Training. She is also on the board of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) Europe, and the Irish Global Health Network. Rosemary is Canadian-British. She graduated from the National University of Ireland Galway School of Medicine in 2021. She holds an MSc Global Health from Maastricht University (2020), through which she spent six months in Manipal, India and wrote her thesis on the political prioritisation of incipient tuberculosis. She has completed several public health internships since 2015, including with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Reproductive Health Uganda, the Science Media Centre, and the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care for vulnerable populations in Lausanne. Rosemary is passionate about global health and is particularly interested in health system strengthening for health promotion and disease prevention. She believes everyone, regardless of race, gender, age, religion, disabilities, or borders, should have access to equitable health services, including universal health coverage.