{"id":401,"date":"2026-05-29T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:42:47","slug":"alastair-ager","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/alastair-ager\/","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Ager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alastair Ager is Emeritus Professor of Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. From 2017 to 2020 he served as the Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department for International Development and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alastair has worked in the field of global health and development for over thirty years, after originally training in psychology at the universities of Keele, Wales and Birmingham in the UK. He was formerly Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Malawi and Executive Director of the Global Health Initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York. He has worked as a consultant and researcher across sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, the Middle-East, Europe and North America, with a broad range of agencies including UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO, Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision, Lutheran World Federation and Islamic Relief Worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continues to speak and publish widely in the areas of health systems resilience and fragility; climate adaptation; mental health and psychosocial support; engagement with local faith communities; and advocacy and research influence within government and inter-governmental organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alastair Ager is Emeritus Professor of Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. From 2017 to 2020 he served as the Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department for International Development and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2019. Alastair has worked in the field of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eventos.ins.gov.mz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}