Dr Johannes John-Langba

Designation: Senior Lecturer: Department of Social Development
Expertise: Migration health, climate change and development

Dr. Johannes John-Langba is Senior Lecturer in Social work and Social Development at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, where he is the recipient the Faculty of Humanities’ Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr John-Langba holds MPH and PhD degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (United States) and a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from Howard University (United States). Dr John-Langba was an Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands.

Dr. John-Langba has over 10 years of professional work experience at the national and international levels in research, teaching and program management related to social work, public health and social development. He has worked and/or conducted research in various contexts including Australia, Botswana, Ethiopia, East Jerusalem, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, United States, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. He current research interests include: social aspects of HIV/AIDS; migrant health; sexual and gender-based violence; community level influences on antibiotic resistance; migration, climate change and development; resiliency and xenophobic violence; psychosocial wellbeing of children and families; and recidivism among youth offenders.

Dr John-Langba is a member of the editorial boards of various international journals including as International Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare and Editorial Advisory Board Member of the African Population Studies Journal.  He is the recipient of various fellowships and awards including a Population Policy Communication Fellowship (Population Reference Bureau, USA), Rand Institute Summer Fellowship (Rand Corporation, USA), Cairns Institute Fellow (James Cook University, Australia), African Peacebuilding Network research award (Social Science Research Council, USA),  and Founder’s Fellow at Howard University (United States) for outstanding scholarship and achievement. Dr John-Langba is a Mental Health Ambassador of Cape Mental Health (CMH) —the oldest community-based mental health service provider in South Africa.