Ganzamungu Zihindula is a research fellow at the Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and the Co-founder of the South Africa Refugee-Led Network (SARLN). He graduated with a PhD in public health/Health promotion from the University of Kwazulu-Natal South Africa. His research explored access barriers to healthcare services for refugees. The outcomes of this research led to a formation of Urban Refugee and Asylum Seekers Assistance (URASA) grassroot organization. Dr Zihindula is passionate about health inclusion, health equity and social justice for the socially excluded people (SEP).

His work is found at the intersection between access to care, health promotion intervention development implementation and evaluation, human resource for health, prevention strategies for NCDs (Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension & Mental health conditions), forced migration and health. He has published more than 35 peer review articles and book chapters and presented at over 40 scientific conferences both nationally and internationally. Dr Zihindula is a steering committee member of the Centre for Forced Migration Studies at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), member of the Africa Refugee Network (ARN), the Africa Brain Health Network (ABHN) and Founder of Healthy Rural Societies South Africa (HRSA).

Dr Zihindula is currently working on a project which seeks to improve the quality of care for staff and patients in two acute-care setting Hospital, using a translational simulation approach to implement trauma-informed care.