Roxanne Jacobs has joined the South African team at the Centre for Public Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, as an early career researcher on the STRiDE project. She is a research psychologist with a background in psychology, research methods and gender women’s studies. Roxanne has worked with multi-disciplinary teams both locally and internationally on public health- and social science subject areas, with a particular focus on injury prevention and the psychosocial recovery of vulnerable groups to adverse events within a resource constrained setting like South Africa.