Jennifer Githaiga

Jennifer Githaiga is a lecturer in DSBS and manages the ‘Building Research in Inter-Disciplinary Gender and HIV through the Social Sciences’ [BRIDGES] Program housed in the Division. She holds a PhD in Research Psychology from UCT, an MA in Counselling Psychology from the United States International University – Africa, and an MA in Communication from Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya. Her research interests include women’s health research with a focus on psychosocial dynamics and constructions of chronic illness experiences in resource-limited contexts, and the impact on women’s wellbeing; cancer and the ethics of care, with a special interest in cervical cancer prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa; critical qualitative research approaches and adapting qualitative methods for contextual relevance.