The Expert is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Acadia University. She received her PhD from the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She is concerned with issues of health equity, particularly in relation to gender relations and transnational health activities. She is the author of Global Health and the Village: Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda.
LGBTQI; child abuse; sexual abuse/assault; gender-based violence/domestic violence; child soldiers, forced marriage; FGM/FGC: human trafficking; forced conscription; ex-combatant reintegration; likelihood of destitution or homelessness; land tenure disputes; ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution; risk of torture or political persecution; risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors; risk of retaliation; sufficiency of protection; possibility of safe internal relocation; healthcare access; health systems capacity; mental illness; HIV/AIDS; specialized medical services; reproductive and sexual healthcare
The Expert has expertise on the health care setting in Uganda, the LRA-UPDF conflict & post-conflict, sexual health, HIV, internal displacement.
Book
Rudrum, Sarah. 2022. Global Health and the Village: Transnational Contexts Governing Birth in Northern Uganda. Toronto. University of Toronto Press.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Rudrum, Sarah. 2021. Pregnancy During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: Canadian Experiences of Care. Frontiers in Sociology 6:1-10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.611324
Rudrum, Sarah. 2020. Promoting male circumcision as HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: An evaluation of the ethical and pragmatic considerations of adopting a demand creation approach. Global Public Health, 1-15.
Rudrum, Sarah, John L. Oliffe & Cecilia Benoit. 2017. Discourses of masculinity, femininity and sexuality in Uganda’s ‘Stand Proud, Get Circumcised’ campaign. Culture, Health & Sexuality. 19(2), 225-239.
Rudrum, Sarah. (2016). Institutional Ethnography Research in Global South Settings: The Role of Texts. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 37(2), 250-269.
Rudrum, Sarah. (2016). Pregnancy and Birth in the Global South: A Review of Critical Approaches to Socio-cultural Risk Illustrated with Fieldwork Data from Northern Uganda. Health, Risk & Society. 19(1-2), 1-18.
Rudrum, Sarah, Helen Brown & John L. Oliffe. (2016). Understanding the Meaning and Role of Gifts to Mothers in the Maternity Care Setting: ‘The Help They Give When They’ve Seen How Different You Are’. Sociology of Health & Illness. 38(8):1318-1335.
Rudrum, Sarah. (2016). Traditional Birth Attendants: Policy, Practice, and Ethics. Healthcare for Women International. 37(2), 250-269.
Rudrum, Sarah, John Oliffe & Helen Brown. (2015). Antenatal Care and Couples’ HIV-testing in Rural Northern Uganda: A Gender Relations Analysis. American Journal of Men's Health. 11(4), 811-822.
Hankivsky, Olena, Daniel Grace, Gemma Hunting, Melissa Giesbrecht, Alycia Fridkin, Sarah Rudrum, Olivier Ferlatte, & Natalie Clark. (2014). An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework: Critical Reflections on a Methodology for Advancing Equity. International Journal of Equity in Health. 13(1), 1 -16.
Non Peer-reviewed Publications
Rudrum, Sarah. (2017). Review of the book African Medical Pluralism, ed. William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent. Sociology of Health and Illness.
Rudrum, Sarah. (2015). Landmark decision in Uganda in case of maternal death is cause for celebration. Guest blog post. Reproductive Health Matters.
Rudrum, Sarah. (2015). Review of the film Sister: An Intimate Portrait of a Global Health Crisis. Guest blog post. Reproductive Health Matters.
Rudrum, Sarah and Lisa Vetten. (2006). Getting by in Gauteng: Resources for Women. Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Johannesburg, South Africa. (A report on available services and a resource guide for women accessing services in Gauteng province, SA. I was researcher and author, with guidance and revisions from Lisa Vetten of CSVR.)