Glorieuse Uwizeye

Glorieuse Uwizeye is an Assistant Professor at Western University in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College, with a primary appointment in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Mental Health Nurse who obtained her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Illinois in Chicago, a Bachelor of Nursing Honors (mental health), and a Master’s degree in Nursing (mental health) at the University of KwaZulu Natal/South Africa. She is interested in studying the intersecting impacts of political, socioeconomic, and environmental factors on development and health. Her research program focuses on the health impacts of genocide against the Tutsi and epigenetic mechanisms linking prenatal exposure to genocide or genocidal rape and adulthood health outcomes. She has held key positions at the Rwanda Ministry of Health, USAID US Embassy in Rwanda, FHI 360, and Association Mwana Ukundwa.