Adolescent Health Archives - Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research /dighr/tag/adolescent-health/ Effectiveness, equity, and excellent in global health. Fri, 02 May 2025 15:42:47 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah /dighr/person/ebenezer-kwesi-armah-ansah/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:49:36 +0000 /dighr/?post_type=person&p=13660 Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah is a global health researcher and a PhD student in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. With a BA and MPhil in Population and Health from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and an MPA in Population and Development from the National Research University - Higher School […]

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]]> Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah is a global health researcher and a PhD student in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. With a BA and MPhil in Population and Health from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and an MPA in Population and Development from the National Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, Ebenezer’s work focuses on various critical areas within global health, including maternal and child health, adolescent health, and infectious diseases. Eben is interested in exploring the structural barriers and facilitators of gender-based violence among women with tuberculosis and HIV. Currently, he serves as an academic editor for BMC Reproductive Health and PLoS ONE, where he furthers his commitment to advancing global health knowledge and practice.

Eben is working with Dahdaleh Faculty Fellow, Dr Daftary, and her collaborator at the University of Waterloo, Dr Charity-Oga Omenka, as part of the TB initiative, Social Science and Health Innovations For Tuberculosis ().

Research Keywords

maternal health; child health; adolescent health; and infectious diseases

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]]> Lauren Wallace /dighr/person/lauren-wallace/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:48:18 +0000 /dighr/?post_type=person&p=12649 Dr. Lauren J. Wallace is a medical anthropologist and a public health researcher. Her research has focused primarily on health systems and policy in West Africa, where she has studied family planning, adolescent wellbeing, priority setting for maternal and reproductive health, mental health, community-based primary health care, and urban health, using participatory action research, ethnography, […]

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]]> Dr. Lauren J. Wallace is a medical anthropologist and a public health researcher. Her research has focused primarily on health systems and policy in West Africa, where she has studied family planning, adolescent wellbeing, priority setting for maternal and reproductive health, mental health, community-based primary health care, and urban health, using participatory action research, ethnography, and implementation science. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Dodowa Health Research Centre (Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service), a Researcher in the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management at the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana and a consultant with Communitology. Dr. Wallace has been a Principal Investigator, Country Principal Investigator or Co- Investigator on research programmes funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She was formerly a CIHR Vanier Scholar.

Dr. Wallace holds a PhD in Anthropology of Health from McMaster University (2012- 2017) and a B.A.S. in Arts and Sciences with minors in Anthropology and Biology from the University of Guelph (2007-2011). She completed post-doctoral training (2017-2019) in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University and in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana.

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