My background is in Medicine, Public Health, and Philosophy. These come together in my trans-disciplinary research agenda which revolves around gaining greater conceptual clarity into the well-being of people belonging to marginalised groups. This calls for an understanding of causal pathways; the role of institutions and informal social configurations in ameliorating or worsening people’s circumstances; and what is owed to those served least well by society.
Journal Article: Ripple effects: integrating international medical graduates from refugee backgrounds into the health system in Australia
Nyanchoga, Mercy Moraa, Sackey, Donata, Farley, Rebecca, Claydon, Rachel and Mukandi, Bryan (2022). Ripple effects: integrating international medical graduates from refugee backgrounds into the health system in Australia. BMJ global health, 7 (4) e007911, e007911. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007911
Other Outputs: Interrogating our vaccine fetish
Mukandi, Bryan (2021, 09 27). Interrogating our vaccine fetish The Ethics Centre
Journal Article: For us, by us: towards a more just philosophical community
Mukandi, Bryan (2021). For us, by us: towards a more just philosophical community. Theoria, 68 (168), 86-110. doi: 10.3167/th.2021.6816805
Building an Indigenist Health Humanities Collective
(2021–2026) ARC Discovery Indigenous
(2021–2024) ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Roles and Ritual: The Inala Wangarra Rites of Passage Ball Case Study
(2018–2019) National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Limited
In the Care of the State: A Deep Dive into the Queensland Protection System
Doctor Philosophy
Chinese Australian medical student navigations of the health system: intersections of culture, identity and cross-cultural communication
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker role
Doctor Philosophy
Living with Diabetes Study: Preliminary Findings
Donald, Maria, Dower, Jo, Parekh, Sanjoti, Mukandi, Bryan, Rixon, Kylie and Baker, Peter (2011). Living with Diabetes Study: Preliminary Findings.
The North African Syndrome: traversing the distance to the cultural 'Other'
Mukandi, Bryan (2019). The North African Syndrome: traversing the distance to the cultural 'Other'. The Bloomsbury companion to philosophy of psychiatry. (pp. 413-428) edited by Serife Tekin and Robyn Bluhm. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
V akom svete je toto spravodlivé?
Mukandi, Bryan (2016). V akom svete je toto spravodlivé?. Hlasy väčšinového sveta: 9 + 1 rozhovorov z 5 kontinentov. (pp. 41-54) edited by Zuzana Labašová and Zuzana Gallayová. Zvolen, Slovakia: Fakulta Banictva, Ekologie, Riadenia a Geotechnologii, Technicka Univerzita v Kosiciach.
Nyanchoga, Mercy Moraa, Sackey, Donata, Farley, Rebecca, Claydon, Rachel and Mukandi, Bryan (2022). Ripple effects: integrating international medical graduates from refugee backgrounds into the health system in Australia. BMJ global health, 7 (4) e007911, e007911. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007911
For us, by us: towards a more just philosophical community
Mukandi, Bryan (2021). For us, by us: towards a more just philosophical community. Theoria, 68 (168), 86-110. doi: 10.3167/th.2021.6816805
Black to the future: making the case for indigenist health humanities
Watego, Chelsea, Whop, Lisa J., Singh, David, Mukandi, Bryan, Macoun, Alissa, Newhouse, George, Drummond, Ali, McQuire, Amy, Stajic, Janet, Kajlich, Helena and Brough, Mark (2021). Black to the future: making the case for indigenist health humanities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (16) 8704, 1-10. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18168704
Picturing sanity, in black and white
Mukandi, Bryan (2021). Picturing sanity, in black and white. Medical Humanities, medhum-2021. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012146
Gathering on the Wrong Side of the Road: Critical Race Scholarship Across the Health Humanities
Mukandi, Bryan (2021). Gathering on the Wrong Side of the Road: Critical Race Scholarship Across the Health Humanities. Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (Spring), 1-3.
Being seen by the doctor: a meditation on power, institutional racism, and medical ethics
Mukandi, Bryan (2021). Being seen by the doctor: a meditation on power, institutional racism, and medical ethics. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 18 (1), 33-44. doi: 10.1007/s11673-021-10087-2
Enwhitenment: utes, philosophy and the preconditions of civil society
Mukandi, Bryan (2020). Enwhitenment: utes, philosophy and the preconditions of civil society. The Ethics Centre, Knowledge Archive.
Bond, Chelsea, Brough, Mark, Mukandi, Bryan, Springer, Shannon, Askew, Deborah and Stajic, Janet (2020). Looking forward looking black: making the case for a radical rethink of strategies for success in Indigenous higher education. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 49 (2), 1-10. doi: 10.1017/jie.2020.13
Faulkner, Joanne, England, Renee, Aquino, Yves and Mukandi, Bryan (2020). Introduction: Spinoza today. Australasian Philosophical Review, 4 (3), 191-195. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2021.1962646
Philosophically thinking through COVID-19
Mukandi, Bryan (2020, 05 09). Philosophically thinking through COVID-19 The Ethics Centre
Askew, Deborah A., Brady, Karla, Mukandi, Bryan, Singh, David, Sinha, Tanya, Brough, Mark and Bond, Chelsea J. (2020). Closing the gap between rhetoric and practice in strengths-based approaches to Indigenous public health: a qualitative study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 44 (2) 1753-6405.12953, 102-105. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12953
Beyond Hermes: metaphysics in a new key
Mukandi, Bryan (2019). Beyond Hermes: metaphysics in a new key. Utafiti, 14 (1), 145-161. doi: 10.1163/26836408-14010008
“So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community
Mukandi, Bryan, Singh, David, Brady, Karla, Willis, Jon, Sinha, Tanya, Askew, Deborah and Bond, Chelsea (2019). “So we tell them”: articulating strong Black masculinities in an urban Indigenous community. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15 (3), 253-260. doi: 10.1177/1177180119876721
‘Good in the hood’ or ‘burn it down’? Reconciling Black presence in the academy
Mukandi, Bryan and Bond, Chelsea (2019). ‘Good in the hood’ or ‘burn it down’? Reconciling Black presence in the academy. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40 (2), 254-268. doi: 10.1080/07256868.2019.1577232
Bond, Chelsea, Brough, Mark, Willis, Jon, Stajic, Janet, Mukandi, Bryan, Canuto, Condy, Springer, Shannon, Askew, Deborah, Angus, Lynnell and Lewis, Tara (2019). Beyond the pipeline: a critique of the discourse surrounding the development of an Indigenous primary healthcare workforce in Australia. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 25 (5), 389-394. doi: 10.1071/py19044
‘You cunts can do as you like’: the obscenity and absurdity of free speech to Blackfullas
Bond, Chelsea, Mukandi, Bryan and Coghill, Shane (2018). ‘You cunts can do as you like’: the obscenity and absurdity of free speech to Blackfullas. Continuum, 32 (4), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1487126
South-south dialogue: in search of humanity
Mukandi, Bryan (2017). South-south dialogue: in search of humanity. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 47 (1), 1-9. doi: 10.1017/jie.2017.24
Book Review: Lewis R. Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
Mukandi, Bryan (2017). Book Review: Lewis R. Gordon, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought. Sartre Studies International, 23 (1), 109-111. doi: 10.3167/ssi.2017.230108
Mukandi, Bryan (2015). Chester Himes, Jacques Derrida and inescapable colonialism: reflections on African philosophy from the diaspora. South African Journal of Philosophy, 34 (4), 526-537. doi: 10.1080/02580136.2015.1113821
Durham, Jo, Brolan, Claire E. and Mukandi, Bryan (2014). The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a foundation for ethical disability and health research in developing countries. American Journal of Public Health, 104 (11), 2037-2043. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302006
Donald, Maria, Dower, Jo, Coll, Joseph R., Baker, Peter, Mukandi, Bryan and Doi, Suhail A. R. (2013). Mental health issues decrease diabetes-specific quality of life independent of glycaemic control and complications: findings from Australia's Living With Diabetes cohort study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 11 (170) 170, 1-8. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-11-170
Rosenstock, Amanda, Mukandi, Bryan, Zwi, Anthony B. and Hill, Peter S. (2013). Closing the Gaps: competing estimates of Indigenous Australian life expectancy in the scientific literature. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 37 (4), 356-364. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12084
Donald, Maria, Dower, Jo, Ware, Robert, Mukandi, Bryan, Parekh, Sanjoti and Bain, Christopher (2012). Living with diabetes: rationale, study design and baseline characteristics for an Australian prospective cohort study. Bmc Public Health, 12 (1) 8, 8-1-8-10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-8
Darlington, Sharon, Oancea, Iulia, Barry, Benjamin K., Shepherd, Nicole, Mukandi, Bryan, Winch, Sarah and Wozniak, Helen (2019). Discriminative capacity of a rubric assessment of ethical reasoning and clinical reasoning in case-based learning tutorials. ANZAHPE 2019 Conference, Canberra, 1-4 July 2019.
Barry, Benjamin K., Shepherd, Nicole, Darlington, Sharon, Mukandi, Bryan, Winch, Sarah, Wozniak, Helen and Oancea, Iulia (2019). Student and tutor evaluations of the integration of medical ethics in case-based learning discussions.. ANZAHPE 2019 Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 1-4 July 2019. Canberra, ACT Australia: Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators.
Assimilation, tradition and violence in sub-Saharan Africa: an argument against the idea of progress
Mukandi, Bryan (2013). Assimilation, tradition and violence in sub-Saharan Africa: an argument against the idea of progress. Perspectives on Progress, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, 26-29 November, 2013.
The burden of Indigenous health policy research
Mukandi, Bryan and Hill, Peter (2013). The burden of Indigenous health policy research. International Political Science Association, Research Committee 14: Politics and Ethnicity, North Ryde, NSW, Sydney, 10-14 July 2013.
Mukandi, Bryan (2012). Contributing towards health provision in severely disrupted environments - some ethical considerations. 19th Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics (AAPAE), St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia, 28 June - 1 July 2012. Sydney, Australia: Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
Interrogating our vaccine fetish
Mukandi, Bryan (2021, 09 27). Interrogating our vaccine fetish The Ethics Centre
Ethics Of The Pandemic - FODI Digital 2020
Beard, Matthew, Gordon-Smith, Eleanor and Mukandi, Bryan (2020). Ethics Of The Pandemic - FODI Digital 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpMrDZ1PsaU: Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Submission to Productivity Commission Inquiry into an Indigenous Evaluation Strategy
Bond, Chelsea, Brady, Karla, Hassall, Keryn, Macoun, Alissa, Mukandi, Bryan, Singh, David, Staines, Zoe and Strakosch, Elizabeth (2019). Submission to Productivity Commission Inquiry into an Indigenous Evaluation Strategy. Brisbane, QLD Australia: University of Queensland.
Bond, Chelsea, Brough, Mark, Willis, Jon, Stajic, Janet, Mukandi, Bryan, Canuto, Condy, Springer, Shannon, Askew, Deborah, Angus, Nell and Lewis, Tara (2019). Moving beyond the front line: a 20-year retrospective cohort study of career trajectories from the Indigenous Health Program at the University of Queensland. Lowitja Institute Workforce Research St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Dancing on the Tightrope of Existence: Deconstructing Black Consciousness
Mukandi, Bryan (2017). Dancing on the Tightrope of Existence: Deconstructing Black Consciousness. PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.1020
African Book Club: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Mavondo, Tariro, Mukandi, Bryan and Stein, Ginny (2016). African Book Club: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Building an Indigenist Health Humanities Collective
(2021–2026) ARC Discovery Indigenous
(2021–2024) ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Roles and Ritual: The Inala Wangarra Rites of Passage Ball Case Study
(2018–2019) National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Limited
(2017–2019) National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Limited
(2012–2013) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
In the Care of the State: A Deep Dive into the Queensland Protection System
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Chinese Australian medical student navigations of the health system: intersections of culture, identity and cross-cultural communication
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Exploring the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker role
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Talking it Through: The Role of Heritage Language Maintenance in Preventing Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma among Refugee Youth
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Where is the Indigenous in Indigenous Public Health?
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors: