Nora

From 2004-2013, I worked with a local human health rights organization in Israel (Physicians for Human Rights) that does advocacy and humanitarian work with marginalized populations including migrants and statusless persons. 2007-2012, I did a PhD on the health rights of documented and undocumented labor migrants in Germany and Israel and on related political decision-making processes. During that time I was also involved in participatory action research with forced migrants in Israel; e.g., Eritrean asylum seekers. I then spent 1 year (postdoc, 2014-2015) in Chicago, working mainly on community-based participatory research with low-paid worker/migrant populations. Since 2016 I have a postdoc position at the Technical University Berlin. My research addresses health policies towards asylum seekers, namely an evaluation of policy changes and an examination of policy rationales (e.g., for the introduction of an electronic chipcard for asylum seekers in some counties, which may have eased access to care and reduced costs of care). Over the recent years I was involved in the establishment of a work group under EUPHA's Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health Section that deals with "economic arguments in migrant health policymaking"; i.e., the goal of the workgroup is to understand how policy can be influenced and the role of scientific evidence therein as well as the mapping and generation of scientific evidence, incl. discussion of methodological and other challenges. Apart from "applied" public health/action research I am very interested in public health ethical and political theories and debates around the topic of migration and health/health inequities/social justice.