Seminar: Mayssa Rekhis on Migration, Global Health, & Social Justice

The Center for Global Health Equity is pleased to present the first of our seminar speakers for the 2024-2025 academic year: Mayssa Rekhis, Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Rekhis will be presenting her work exploring the intersection of migration, global health, & social justice.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Office of Global Public Health and the Department of Anthropology

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About Mayssa Rekhis
Mayssa Rekhis is a Medical Doctor, who graduated from the University of Tunis el-Manar, Tunisia, and an anthropologist, holding a Ph.D from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences EHESS – Paris, France. She is a researcher, educator, and activist, and works at the intersection of these roles, with a focus on health, social justice, and migration. She has more than a decade of experience working in SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa), East Africa, and Europe, both as a researcher and as a practitioner with experience mainly in the non-profit sector. As a researcher, she explores humans’ experiences with extreme violence, trauma, suffering, and exile, and is interested in the roles of psychiatry and psychotherapies, mechanisms and processes of subjectivation, and healing. She is currently working in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at Gothenburg University, in Sweden, as a lecturer, and researcher.

About the Center for Global Health Equity
The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan champions collaborative efforts to address health disparities in low- and middle-income countries. Based at the University of Michigan, the Center thrives on collaboration, embracing both interdisciplinary and co-design approaches. By uniting U-M faculty, staff, and students with external
stakeholders, we amplify our impact on individuals and communities in need.