Nguyen Thu Anh is a lecturer at Hanoi Medical University and a Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.

Jean Chaw-Kant (MSc) Jean Chaw-Kant is a Research Project Coordinator in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She is currently involved in several research projects that focus on vulnerable populations such as (1) homeless women and youth in Canada, (2) media’s portrayal of the homeless and homelessness and (3) the influence of stigma on access to health services by persons with HIV+ status.

Anita Hardon (Ph.D.) is Professor in Anthropology of Care and Health at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.

Teresa Macias is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (OISE) at University of Toronto. She is also an Assistant Professor of anti-discriminatory and anti-racist social work at York University, School of Social Work.

Jennifer Nelson (Ph.D.) is a research consultant and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (OISE) at University of Toronto.

Pauline Oosterhoff is a senior health advisor at the Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam and a Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School for Social Research.

Magdalena Solina Richter (RN, RM, D-CUR) is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada. Her research program focuses on the social determinants of health and more specifically, research on homelessness to inform public policies and frontline practices that protect and promote health of the low socioeconomic and homeless populations. Her recent projects focus on a global understanding of homelessness.

Aysan Sev’er (Ph.D.) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on extreme forms of violence against women in India and in south-eastern Turkey. She is the founding editor of the Women’s Health & Urban Life Journal and the recipient of the Canadian Person’s Day Award (1998) and the Canadian Women’s Studies Book Award (2004). Currently, she is serving as the Special Advisor to the Principal on Equity Issues at University of Toronto at Scarborough and writing on honour-killings and dowry deaths. She recently organized an international conference on Health, Family & Gender (ISA-RC06- 2007).

Pamela Wright is the country representative of the Medical
Committee Netherlands Vietnam.

Pham Ngoc Yen is a Master’s student in sociology at the Hanoi National University, Faculty of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

The Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal is generously funded by the Wellesley Central Health Corporation and is permanently housed at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto. The founder and the first general editor is Aysan Sev'er, University of Toronto.