Prof. Dr. Susan Dierickx

Susan is a social science researcher with extensive interdisciplinary research expertise in low- and middle-income countries.

Susan holds a keen interest in:

• sexual and reproductive health and rights
• maternal health
• reproductive justice
• health seeking behaviour Sub-Sahara Africa

She completed her joint-PhD in Gender and Diversity at the VUB and Ghent University (2015-2020). As part of her doctoral research, she designed and implemented an interdisciplinary research project on infertility in The Gambia and Senegal. From 2013 to 2015, she worked as a social scientist at the Medical Anthropology Unit at the Institute of Tropical medicine. During this time she was responsible for the design and implementation of several research projects on malaria and maternal health in The Gambia, Benin and Burkina Faso.

From 2020 to 2022, Prof. Dr. Susan Dierickx was the coordinator of RHEA Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).