Simukai Chigudu
Zimbabwe
International Development (DPhil), 2017
St Anne's College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann
Simukai is an Associate Professor of African Politics at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Antony's College.
He completed a DPhil in International Development and an MSc in African Studies as Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholar. His wider research interests lie at the next of African politics and global health. He has published widely in numerous social science and global health journals including African Affairs (forthcoming); Global Health Governance; the International Feminist Journal of Politics; and Health Economics, Policy and Law.
Simukai has recently published a book: 'The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe' (Cambridge University Press, 2020), is a study of the social and political causes and consequences of Zimbabwe’s catastrophic cholera outbreak in 2008/09, the worst in African history.
Simukai has worked and conducted research in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia and South Africa. Prior to becoming an academic, Simukai was a medical doctor in the UK’s National Health Service.
