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Scholarship
Research with migrant and refugee young people, and teaching future practitioners.
What the work involves
Dr Michaels Aibangbee is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at Charles Darwin University and Course Coordinator of the Master of Psychology (Clinical), known as the MPC. He teaches across Psychology and Counselling, including professional ethics, counselling skills, trauma, and psychological assessment and intervention.
He is also an academic in the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University, where he completed his PhD in Health Sciences. His teaching brings decolonial perspectives and community-led approaches into the preparation of practitioners who will serve culturally diverse communities.
His research looks at the social determinants of health, with a focus on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant and refugee young people. Supported by the Australian Research Council, it uses participatory action research and socio-ecological frameworks, so that young people shape the questions as well as the answers.
What the research asks
- Social determinants of healthHow housing, education, income, culture and policy shape health across a lifetime.
- Sexual and reproductive health and rightsKnowledge, experiences and access for migrant and refugee young people in Australia.
- Participatory action researchResearch done with communities, where young people help set the agenda.
- Socio-ecological and decolonial approachesReading health through families, communities, services and systems at once.
Selected publications
The full, current list is on ORCID.
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2024
Barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights of migrant and refugee youth: an exploratory socioecological qualitative analysis
Aibangbee M, Micheal S, Liamputtong P, Pithavadian R, Hossain SZ, Mpofu E, Dune TM. Youth.
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2024
Socioecologies in shaping migrants and refugee youths' sexual and reproductive health and rights: a participatory action research study
Aibangbee M, Micheal S, Liamputtong P, Pithavadian R, Hossain SZ, Mpofu E, Dune T. Reproductive Health.
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2023
Migrant and refugee youth's sexual and reproductive health and rights: a scoping review to inform policies and programs
Aibangbee M, Micheal S, Mapedzahama V, Liamputtong P, Pithavadian R, Hossain Z, Mpofu E, Dune T. International Journal of Public Health.
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2023
Mental illness stigma and associated factors among Arabic-speaking refugee and migrant populations in Australia
Chimoriya R, Mohammad Y, Thomson R, Webster C, Dunne R, Aibangbee M, Ip D, Slewa-Younan S. International Journal of Mental Health Systems.
Organisations
Charles Darwin University
Faculty of Health, including the Master of Psychology (Clinical).
Western Sydney University
School of Medicine.
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