Rosemary James

NextGen Scholar

Scientific collaborator at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies and co-coordinator of the Lancet Migration European Regional Hub

Dr Rosemary James (Rosie) is a scientific collaborator at the University of Geneva’s Centre of Humanitarian Studies. She is co-coordinator of the Lancet Migration European Regional Hub and a board member of the Irish Global Health Network and the Federation of European Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH). She also co-chairs FESTMIH’s working group on Tropical Medicine Education and Training.

She is affiliated with the University College London’s Institute for Global Health. Rosie graduated from NUI Galway School of Medicine in 2021, where she was awarded the Gold Medal for Civic Engagement. She holds an MSc in Global Health from Maastricht University (2020). Rosie has completed several public health internships, including with Reproductive Health Uganda, and the Centre for Public Health and Primary Care for vulnerable populations in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2017, she completed an internship at the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and has since worked on various research projects for their health workforce department.

Rosie is passionate about global health and is particularly interested in qualitative research to inform health system strengthening for health promotion and disease prevention in the areas of public health, primary care, environmental health, migrant health, infectious disease, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She believes everyone, regardless of race, gender, age, religion, disabilities, or borders, should have access to equitable health services, including universal health coverage.