Our Publications

Our research team provides trusted, independent analysis that practitioners and policymakers can rely on.

Our research publications provide at best independent, evidence-based analysis and recommendations to help academic institutions, practitioners, policymakers and national leaders tackle global challenges.

Journal

Mori, K., & Onyango, E. (2023). Intersections of race, COVID-19 pandemic, and food security in Black identifying Canadian households: A scoping review. Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, 10(3), 3-34.

Onyango, E. O., & Elliott, S. J. (2023). Victims or perpetrators, agency, and politics of intimate partner violence in the social construction of health and wellbeing: a qualitative study from Kenya. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 31(1), 2272762.

Onyango, Elizabeth Opiyo, Bernard Owusu, and Jonathan S. Crush. "COVID-19 and urban food security in Ghana during the third wave." Land 12.2 (2023): 504.

Onyango, E. O., Crush, J. S., & Owuor, S. (2023). Food insecurity and dietary deprivation: Migrant households in Nairobi, Kenya. Nutrients, 15(5), 1215.

Onyango, E. O., & Elliott, S. J. (2022). Traversing the geographies of displacement, livelihoods, and embodied health and wellbeing of senior women in Kenya. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 3, 100110.

Onyango, E., Olukotun, M., Olanrewaju, F., Kapfunde, D. C., Chinedu-Asogwa, N., & Salami, B. (2024). Transnationalism and Hegemonic Masculinity: Experiences of Gender-Based Violence among African Women Immigrants in Canada.

Ramachandran, S., Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., & Onyango, E. O. (2024). Pandemic precarity, crisis-living, and food insecurity: female Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. In Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19 (pp. 180-195). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Ahmed, Zack, Jonathan Crush, Samuel Owuor, and Elizabeth Onyango. "Migration & Food Security (MiFOOD)." https://mifood.org/papers/refugee-migration-and-urban-food-security-somali-migrants-in-nairobi-kenya/
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Ramachandra, S., Crush, J., Tawodzera, G. and Onyango, E. (2022). Pandemic food precarity, crisis-living and translocality: Zimbabwean migrant households in South Africa during COVID-19. South African Migration Programme (SAMP), International Migration Research Centre, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. https://samponline.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SAMP85.pdf

Onyango E. O. (2021). Managing livelihood in displacement: The politics of landownership, food security, and embodied health and wellbeing by senior women in Kenya. In Gender Climate Change and Livelihoods. Publisher: CABI https://www.cabi.org/what-we-do/publishing/.

2021 Onyango, E., Crush, J. and Owuor, S. (2021). Urban Food Security and Household Shocks in Nairobi, Kenya HCP Discussion Paper No. 47, Waterloo, and Cape Town.

2020 Onyango, E.O (2020). Life skills for program girls: The Nigeria WAY learning agenda series. Mennonite Economic Development Associate (MEDA), Waterloo, ON.

2020 Onyango, E.O (2020). A rapid assessment of the impacts COVID-19 on women-led savings and loaning groups and gendered implications on household and business decision making. MEDA, Waterloo, ON.

INVITED TALKS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Onyango, E. O., Oba, F., and Crush, J. (2022) Afrocentrism and an eco-social approach in exploration of food insecurity experiences of racialized populations in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Conference for Global Health Research Conference (21st – 23rd November, 2022), Toronto, Canada. (Abstract accepted for paper presentation).

Onyango, E. O. (15th November, 2022). Delicate bodies at risk of soiling themselves: Menstrual hygiene management in LMICs. United Nations University – Institute for Water and Environmental Health, Water Without Boarders Programme.

Onyango, E. O. (15th September, 2022). Food (in)security of migrant households in Canada: Opportunities and challenges for community initiatives post-pandemic. Presentation to the Community University Partnership, Steering Committee Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Onyango, E. O., & Elliott S. J. (2019). Are we afraid of being alone? The politics of gender-based violence – health and wellbeing of middle-aged Kenyans. Canadian Association of Geographers Conference, (27th – 31st May), University of Winnipeg, MN, Canada.

Onyango, E. O. (2019). Principles for global health research: Promoting equity informed choices through research in Kenya. “Hawks Think Global”: Global Health Awareness conference (23rd March). Invited Co-leader, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) Workshop at Global Health Awareness Laurier Initiative (GHALI) Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, ON, Canada.

Onyango, E. O. (2018). Aging in low-and middle-income countries: A case of Kenya. Panelist, Aging Research panel discussion, International Geographical Union/Canadian Association of Geographers (IGU/CAG) Conference (6th– 10th August), Quebec City, QC, Canada.

Onyango, E. O., &Elliott, J. S. (2018). “Bleeding bodies”, “untrustworthy bodies”? Health and wellbeing of female youths in Kenya. International Geographic Union/Canadian Geographers Association (IGU/CAG) Conference (6th– 10th August), Quebec City, QC, Canada.

Onyango, E. O. (2017). Panelist, Panel discussion, Menstrual Hygiene Day, University

of Waterloo (26th May), Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Onyango, E. O., & Elliott, J. S. (2017). What is health and wellbeing anyway? A regional divide in the lay perceptions and meaning of health and wellbeing in Kenya. Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Conference (29th May – 2nd June), York University, ON, Canada.

Onyango, E. O., & Elliott, J. S. (2016). Health-wellbeing Nexus: An ecological and life course perspective in theorization and conceptualization of health and wellbeing. Canadian Association of Geographers – Ontario Division (CAGONT) Conference (28th– 29th October), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Onyango, E.O. and Elliott, J.S. (2016) Health-Wellbeing Nexus: An Ecological and Life Course Perspective in Theorization and Conceptualization of Health and Wellbeing, CAGONT conference, (December 2016).

Onyango, E.O. (2012) A Study of Adherence to Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (ACT) for Treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Southeast Alego, Karemo Division, Siaya District, Kenya. Annual Scientific and Health (KASH) Conference, KEMRI Headquarters, Nairobi (30th March 2012).

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