Naeemah Abrahams

Naeemah Abrahams is a Chief Specialist Scientist at the Gender & Health Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council. She has a honory appointment as a Professor in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town. She has worked in the area of gender-based violence research for more nearly three decades. Her research focus is on the intersections between gender-based violence and health, measurement of violence against women and children, and health impact of violence against women including the interface with HIV and sexual and reproductive health. Her focus area is femicide research and she has led the national femicide studies for more than two decades in South Africa and has worked on femicide globally. She has been a Technical Advisor on numerous WHO working groups on violence against women measurement and estimation.