Dr Bryan Mukandi
Lecturer in Medical Ethics
St Lucia Clinical Unit

Publications
Book Chapters
Watego, Chelsea, Brady, Karla, Hassall, Keryn, Macoun, Alissa, Mukandi, Bryan, Singh, David, Staines, Zoe and Strakosch, Elizabeth (2025). Understanding and transforming indigenous policy evaluation. Bureaucratic occupation: government and First Nations peoples. (pp. 275-291) edited by Julie Lahn, Elizabeth Strakosch and Patrick Sullivan. London, United Kingdom: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-67733-5_16
Mukandi, Bryan (2019). The North African Syndrome: Traversing the Distance to the Cultural “Other”. The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. (pp. 413-430) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
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, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
Mukandi, Bryan (2016). V akom svete je toto spravodlivé?. Hlasy väčšinového sveta: 10 + 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.
Journal Articles
Mukandi, Bryan (2023). Pan-African Pandemonium: Identities, Histories, and Constellations. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 56 (1), 33-50. doi: 10.5325/philrhet.56.1.0033
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
Mukandi, Bryan (2022). Picturing sanity, in black and white. Medical Humanities, 48 (3), 308-314. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012146
Mukandi, Bryan (2021). For us, by us: towards a more just philosophical community. Theoria, 68 (168), 86-110. doi: 10.3167/th.2021.6816805
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
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.
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
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) PII S1326011120000137, 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
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
Mukandi, Bryan (2019). Beyond Hermes: metaphysics in a new key. Utafiti, 14 (1), 145-161. doi: 10.1163/26836408-14010008
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
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
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
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
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
Conference Papers
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seminar Paper
Mukandi, Bryan (2019). Grounds: An African philosophical reading of movement, possibility and liberty. Africa Week. The Department of Communication, the Philosophy Department and the Anthropology and Sociology Department, Denison University.
Thesis
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
Newspaper Articles
Mukandi, Bryan (2021, 09 27). Interrogating our vaccine fetish The Ethics Centre
Mukandi, Bryan (2020, 05 09). Philosophically thinking through COVID-19 The Ethics Centre
Creative Works
Beard, Matthew, Gordon-Smith, Eleanor and Mukandi, Bryan (2020). Ethics Of The Pandemic - FODI Digital 2020. Online: Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Mavondo, Tariro, Mukandi, Bryan and Stein, Ginny (2016). African Book Club: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Research Reports
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.