Sandy Gifford

Sandy Gifford is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the Swinburne Centre for Urban Transitions. She was the previous founding director of the La Trobe Refugee Health Research Centre - La Trobe University. Her background is in medical anthropology and social epidemiology and her research has addressed community-based approaches to prevention of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, women's health and well-being and refugee settlement and health in Australia.

She is now retired and continuing to write on humanitarian urbanism and on the intersections of medical anthropology and epidemiology in grappling with past and new challenges in public health.

She has a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, San Francisco and an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley.