Naeemah Abrahams

Naeemah Abrahams the Director of the Gender & Health Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council and has an honorary position as a Professor with the Women’s Health Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. She has worked in the area of gender-based violence research for nearly three decades. Her research focus is on the intersections between gender-based violence and health, measurement of violence against women and children, femicide and the health impact of violence against women including the interface with HIV and sexual and reproductive health. She has worked globally and were part of the core team with WHO and LSHTM to estimate the 1st global Intimate Partner Violence and Non-Partner Sexual Violence incidence and prevalence estimates in 2013. She has done research methods training across Africa and in South Africa she leads the country’s femicide studies for nearly two decades working closely with the government in developing prevention strategies for femicide. She is the PI of the only longitudinal rape study in the Global South to describe the health impact post-rape. Her current research focus on improving sexual assault services and mental health interventions to mitigate the increase risk for HIV post rape.