Jo Vearey is an Associate Professor with the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests focus on urban health, public health, migration and health, the social determinants of health, HIV, informal settlements, sex work, and local level responses. In 2014, Jo received a Friedel Sellschop Award from the University of the Witwatersrand for outstanding young researchers and was awarded a British Council Researcher Links Travel Award to spend time at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She has served on the SAYAS Executive Committee.