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Stephen Nkansah-Amankra
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  • Position: Assistant Professor
  • Department: School of Health Sciences
    Community Health Division
  • Campus Address: 2209 Health Professions Building
  • Phone: 989-774-4476
  • Email: nkans1s@cmich.edu
  • Courses:
    HSC 235 Psychoactive Drugs
    HSC 525 Sex Diseases Workshop

Research Areas

Evaluating effects of social contexts on health

Dr. Nkansah-Amankra is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Health Program (Epidemiology) at Central Michigan University (CMU), Mount Pleasant. He graduated from the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. His current research interests are evaluating effects of social contexts on health particularly on low birth weight and preterm birth outcomes, prospective assessments of psychosocial factors on suicidal behaviors on young people entering adulthood and other aspects of maternal psychiatric epidemiology. He has previously worked with United Nationals Population Fund and Save the Children (UK) as a National Program Officer and Reproductive Health Advisor respectively. Dr. Nkansah-Amankra has made numerous research presentations at the national and international levels on neighborhood effects on adverse birth outcomes. He has also written extensively on these relationships in a top-tier national and international peer reviewed journal, and his current research in psychiatric maternal epidemiology is an attempt to illuminate a general stigma assoicated with mental health particularly for prenatal women. He is passionate about public health and views improved population health as central to all economic developments and growth.
 
Registered Student Organizations

Dr. Nkansah-Amankra is the faculty advisor for Eta Sigma Gamma