Grace Akello, PhD is a Medical Anthropologist and Ethnographer. She is currently an Associate Professor in Gulu University’s Faculty of Medicine. She studies Humanitarianism, pandemic preparedness, gendered health policy, public authority and leaders’ engagements during complex emergencies and in LMICs. Her doctoral thesis: Wartime children’s suffering and quests for therapy in northern Uganda was awarded a PhD Premium by the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
