Mobility | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Michael Kalu

rebsl — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:29:34 +0000

Dr. Michael Kalu is an assistant professor of Rehabilitation Therapy in the School of Kinesiology and Health. His research spans a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach to mobility assessment, addressing prevention, improvement, and maintenance of mobility in older adults across Africa and Canada. He also explores the use of artificial intelligence and related technologies to enhance the quality of life for Black older adults, employing Afrocentric methodologies to advance social and health equity in Canada and Africa. Read more about his projects and how to get involved at /research/project/m4aginglab/.

Keywords: Mobility, Afrocentric, Health equity, Social equity, Technology and AI

Perpetua Obi

rebsl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:40:46 +0000

I am Physiotherapist, Gerontologist and Sexual Health Counselor. I am currently doing my master in Kinesiology and Health science. My research interest is on older adults, sexual health and geriatric Physiotherapy.

Keywords: older adults, falls prevention, mobility, gender-based violence, adolescent sexual health, Menstruation hygiene and older adult sexual health.

Beauty Umana

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:58:35 +0000

Beauty is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics and health policy and equity passionate about mobility and social justice. Her sociolinguistic work has allowed her conduct research on language, migration, and social change. Her work focuses on Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town, drawing on their everyday lived experiences as immigrants to examine their social positioning as insiders and outsiders in their new society. Beauty’s primary research interest in health discipline is how stigma can interfere with disease treatment specifically in black communities in low income countries. Her broader research interests include language policy, women's health, TB stigma and other disease-related stigma.

She holds an adjunct lecturing position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where she lectures at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Previously, she also worked as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Dental Sciences at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa, teaching advanced academic competencies at the undergraduate level.

Beauty’s current project focuses on TB stigma in in black communities of South Africa. This project will illuminate how language commonly associated with TB prevention and treatment may be a vehicle for its implicit stigmatization. The study employs critical discourse analysis methodology to examine policy documents and clinical guidelines for TB testing and management. Informed by an interpretive paradigm, the primary aim of the study is to reveal how language is utilized to manufacture social and normative experiences, feelings, and public health responses to TB.