Migration, Social Capital, and Health
Insights from Ghana and Uganda
Raymond Asare Tutu & Janice Desire Busingye
Migration, Social Capital, and Health
Insights from Ghana and Uganda
Raymond Asare Tutu & Janice Desire Busingye
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Raymond A. Tutu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Geography in the College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences at Delaware State University, United States of America. He has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Philosophy degree in Population Studies from the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana. His research interests and scholarly publication are in the subfields of population health; global migration; human–environment geographies including urban environments with emphasis on informality and marginality; as well as water access and health ecology. His scholarly peer-reviewed publications are in top-tier journals such as GeoJournal, Journal of Population Research, Tropical Medicine and Health, Journal of Infections and Public Health, African Geographical Review, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Habitat International, and Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. He has been a reviewer for scientific peer-reviewed journals including The Social Science Journal, Rural Sociology, Journal of International Migration and Integration, African Review of Economics and Finance, International Development Planning Review, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, as well as PLOS ONE. Courses he has taught are Global Societies, World Regional Geography, Social Change, Population Analysis, Technology and Society, and Introduction to Sociology. He is currently a board member of the Africa Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Dr. Tutu is also a member of the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.
Janice Desire Busingye, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer and seasoned scholar in the College of Education, Open and Distance Learning and the Deputy Vice Chancellor, at Kampala International University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree inEducation and Master of Education (Adult Education) from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. Her research and scholarly interests focus on adult education and community development in general; and on the subfields of educational systems, literacy and health literacy in particular, livelihoods and epistemology. She has previously carried out research and published peer reviewed works in journals such as the Africa Education Review, International Social Science Journal, GeoJournal, Journal of Population Research, Tropical Medicine and Health, Journal of Infections and Public Health, among others. She currently teaches a module on Gender and Development; previously she has taught Policy studies, Political Economy, Introduction to critical situation analysis and Human Relations for Community Educators. She is a member of Association of Professional Adult Educators Uganda and American Association of Geographers.