Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute (ALLI)
Meet our new Postdoctoral Fellows
4 August 2023
Meet our new Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Camille Castelyn is an experienced professional with expertise in health ethics and empirical research, including qualitative research. Her PhD in Health ethics applied a Values-based approach to account for both shared and diverse values in people’s perceptions of genome technologies. Additionally, she has a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Bioethics from Columbia University. Her professional knowledge development in leadership, healthcare systems, public health, philosophy, clinical genetics, biotechnology, earth ethics, and religion enables her to lead discussions on broad ethical and practical dimensions from an informed perspective.
Role at ALLI: As a postdoctoral Fellow at the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute, she and the team are building a platform for health within the African context based on a memorandum of agreement between the World Health Organisation and the University of Pretoria. The platform for health aims to identify the challenges and opportunities that healthcare leaders within the African context face and address them through a systems leadership training approach.
Dr Antoinette van der Merwe is working as a post-doctoral researcher in development economics at the SDG Hub at the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute. Her work is on a wide range of topics related to low-income communities, including informal economies, informal resource extraction, domestic waste, sanitation and interventions in early childhood development. Antoinette uses various methodologies, quantitative methods, experimental and survey techniques, and transdisciplinary development. She collaborates with various academic and non-profit organisations in various countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe and Switzerland.
Antoinette did her doctoral studies at the Development Economics Group (Nadel) at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Isabel Günther on various economic, environmental and social aspects of informal gold mining, both topics regarding the upstream part of the gold supply chain, specifically gold sourced by artisanal miners in Burkina Faso, as well as downstream topics, such as the recovery of gold from e-waste after consumption in Switzerland.
Role at ALLI: Post-doctoral researcher at the SDG Hub
