Nolwazi Mkhwanazi Editor

Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health at Wits, with affiliations with Brown and Monash Universities. Her research and publications focus on chronic and infectious disease and social circumstance, with attention to how access to technology unequally interacts and impacts on chronic conditions. She also works on questions of climate change, adaptation and advocacy. She edits the journal Medical Anthropology, and is founding editor of a monograph series, Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality and Social Justice (Rutgers University Press).

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2005), working on early childbearing to examine gender and generational relationships in a South African urban township. She is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and presently a senior researcher and director of the Medical Humanities programme at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). Her research interests revolve around youth, gender and reproductive health issues. She is co-editor, with Deevia Bhana, of Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care (2017).