MHFUS Research Team

MHFUS researchers include teams at Brown University in Providence, RI, the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and in the field in rural northeast South Africa. The Brown team is lead by PI Michael White, and the South Africa team is led by PI Carren Ginsburg.  At Brown University MHFUS is housed at and supported by the Population Studies and Training Center.   At wits, MHFUS is supported by the  MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), within the Wits School of Public Health.

Michael J. White, Brown PI, Professor of Sociology (Emeritus) Brown University, Professor of Population Studies (Research)

Carren Ginsburg, Wits Co-PI, Senior Researcher, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand

Mark Collinson, Co-Investigator, Reader, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand; Past Wits PI

Andrew Foster, Co-Investigator, Professor of Economics and Health Services Policy and Practice, Brown University

F.Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Co-Investigator, Associate Director, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand

Mark Lurie, Co-Investigator, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University

Stephen McGarvey, Co-Investigator, Professor of Epidemiology and of Anthropology, Center for Global Public Health. Brown University

Stephen Tollman, Co-Investigator, Director, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand; Head, Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand; Principal scientist, INDEPTH Network

Sadson Harawa, Primary Site Manager for Migrant and Health Follow-up Study; MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand

Chantel Pheiffer, Assistant Professor in Urban Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Boston, (PhD Sociology, Brown University. 2022)

Tariro Ndoro, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt);  (PhD Candidate)

Team Alumni

Mark Gross, Chief, International Migration Branch, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau; Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Studies, Brown University, 2016-2018

Tyler Myroniuk, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Missouri; Postdoctoral Research Associate in Population Studies, Brown University, 2015-2016

Rebecca Wang, PhD Sociology, Brown University, 2021

Nicole Kreisberg, PhD Sociology, Brown University, 2022

Yashas Vaidya, PhD Sociology, Brown University. 2019