Naeemah Abrahams

Naeemah Abrahams is the deputy director of the Gender and Health Research Unit of the Medical Research Council. She has a nursing background and completed a Masters in Public Health at UWC in 1997, followed by a PhD in Community Health in 2002 at UCT. Her research focus includes gender-based violence and the interface between this and HIV. Her work on intimate partner violence has included a range of topics like men as perpetrators; risk factors for perpetrating intimate partner violence; femicide; the role of guns in gender-based violence; health sector responses to gender-based violence; sexual assault services; prevention of HIV following a sexual assault; HIV stigma; mental health; and burden of disease studies exploring gender-based violence as a risk factor for health outcomes.