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Bachelors Psychology University of Ghana

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According to Wikipedia, Ama de-Graft Aikins is a British-Ghanaian Social Psychologist who is currently a British Academy Global Professor at University College London's Institute of Advanced Studies. Her research focuses primarily on the psychosocial and structural drivers of Africa's chronic non-communicable disease burden, but she also has interests in arts and health, and the history of psychology in Africa and its intersections with critical theory and African Studies. She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Ghana. In 2015, she became the first female full professor of psychology at the University of Ghana, where she has a tenured position.

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Ama de-Graft Aikins's Published Works

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Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of Ghanaian diabetes experiences (2005) (216)
Rethinking health-care systems: a focus on chronicity (2011) (110)
Knowledge and awareness of and perception towards cardiovascular disease risk in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review (2017) (107)
Rationale and cross-sectional study design of the Research on Obesity and type 2 Diabetes among African Migrants: the RODAM study (2014) (101)
Obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (90)
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana (2014) (80)
Living with Diabetes in Rural and Urban Ghana: A Critical Social Psychological Examination of Illness Action and Scope for Intervention (2003) (75)
Reframing applied disease stigma research: a multilevel analysis of diabetes stigma in Ghana (2006) (58)
Variations in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among Ghanaian migrants living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and nonmigrant Ghanaians living in rural and urban Ghana – the RODAM study (2018) (52)
Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Ghana (2014) (49)
Ghana's neglected chronic disease epidemic: a developmental challenge. (2007) (47)
Cardiovascular disease prevention in Ghana: feasibility of a faith-based organizational approach. (2011) (41)
Towards best practice in acute stroke care in Ghana: a survey of hospital services (2017) (40)
Patterns of cardiovascular disease mortality in Ghana: a 5-year review of autopsy cases at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. (2014) (26)
Lay community perceptions and treatment options for hypertension in rural northern Ghana: a qualitative analysis (2018) (25)
Innovative ways of studying the effect of migration on obesity and diabetes beyond the common designs: lessons from the RODAM study (2016) (25)
Exploring Biomedical and Ethnomedical Representations of Diabetes in Ghana and the Scope for Cross-professional Collaboration: a Social Psychological Approach to Health Policy (2002) (24)
“We are the best to stand in for patients”: a qualitative study on nurses’ advocacy characteristics in Ghana (2017) (23)
Familiarising the unfamiliar: cognitive polyphasia, emotions and the creation of social representations (2012) (22)
Health and Healthcare in Ghana, 1957–2017 (2017) (22)
Food beliefs and practices during pregnancy in Ghana: implications for maternal health interventions. (2014) (22)
Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Low and Middle-income Countries (2015) (21)
Aging in Ghana: Setting Priorities for Research, Intervention and Policy (2017) (19)
Research On Aging in Ghana from the 1950s To 2016: A Bibliography and Commentary (2017) (19)
Food variety, dietary diversity, and type 2 diabetes in a multi-center cross-sectional study among Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots in Ghana: the RODAM study (2017) (18)
Ideal cardiovascular health among Ghanaian populations in three European countries and rural and urban Ghana: the RODAM study (2018) (18)
Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Ghana: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2014) (16)
Diabetes in Ghana: A Review of Research on Prevalence, Experiences and Healthcare (2013) (14)
'Colonial virus'? Creative arts and public understanding of COVID-19 in Ghana (2020) (10)
Social representations of diabetes in Ghana: Reconstructing self, society and culture. (2005) (9)
Strengthening Quality and Continuity of Diabetes Care in Rural Ghana: A Critical Social Psychological Approach (2004) (9)
Mental illness and destitution in ghana: A Social-psychological perspective (2015) (9)
Politics, Public Policy and Social Protection in Africa (2017) (5)
A review of cancers in Africa. (2016) (5)
Healer shopping in Africa: new evidence from rural-urban qualitative study of diabetes experiences (2005) (5)
Chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: concepts and strategies for prevention, control and advocacy. (2017) (5)
Ageing and neurodegenerative diseases in Low-and Middle-income countries (2015) (5)
The scope and limits of Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme (2017) (5)
Healthy Cities in Africa: A Continent of Difference (2017) (5)
Towards evidence-based policies to strengthen acute stroke care in low-middle-income countries (2020) (4)
Beyond 'food is medicine': evaluating the impact of Ghana's regenerative health and nutrition pilot programme (2010) (4)
Schizophrenia and psychosis in West Africa (2015) (4)
Towards Population Salt Reduction to Control High Blood Pressure in Ghana: A Policy Direction (2020) (3)
Health psychology in Ghana: A review of the multidisciplinary origins of a young sub-field and its future prospects. (2018) (3)
Establishing and Sustaining Research Partnerships in Africa (2012) (3)
Curing our Ills: The Psychology of Chronic Disease Risk, Experience and Care in Africa (2018) (2)
The Lancet Breast Cancer Commission: tackling a global health, gender, and equity challenge (2022) (2)
Migration and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Ghanaian Populations in Europe (2016) (2)
CommentaryAfrica's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global (2010) (2)
Nonverbal Communication in Everyday Multicultural Life (2011) (2)
I.22 Barriers to patient empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: a social psychological evaluation (2014) (2)
Markers of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in only Diabetic and Obese Ghanaian Populations: The RODAM Study (2019) (1)
Ethnicity, social development and wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa: A conceptual review (2013) (1)
Population surveillance and chronic non-communicable diseases. (2016) (1)
Chronic non-communicable diseases and mental health in Africa. (2016) (1)
Ethnicity: Theories, International Perspectives and Challenges (2013) (1)
Patient Characteristics that Influence the Advocacy Role of Nurses in Ghana: A Qualitative Study (2018) (1)
The Socio-Cultural and Socio-Economic Context of Africa’s Chronic Disease Burden (2013) (0)
Quality of life among the Elderly in Ghana: The contribution of Stroke (2014) (0)
Introduction: Addressing the Chronic Non-communicable Disease Burden in Low- and Middle-income Countries (2016) (0)
P73 Dietary assessment in Ghanaian migrants: the RODAM study (2014) (0)
Community-based interventions for preventing chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. (2016) (0)
I.6 Perceptions of obesity and diabetes among Ghanaians in Europe and Ghana: preliminary insights from the RODAM study (2014) (0)
Early-and mid-career transitions to research leadership in Africa [ version 2 ; peer review : 1 approved ] (2021) (0)
Self-help and chronic noncommunicable disease care: a preliminary review of existing models in low- and middle-income countries. (2016) (0)
‘If you sell your sickness, you will get its medicine’: Care and intrafamilial communication for chronic diseases in southern Ghana (2022) (0)
Introduction: ethnicity: theories, international perspectives and challenges (2013) (0)
Prevention and Control of Chronic Non-communicable Diseases: Lessons From High-income Countries (2016) (0)
Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions: A Global Synthesis (2016) (0)
I.4 Type II diabetes and obesity among sub-Saharan African native and migrant populations: dissection of environment and endogenous predisposition (2014) (0)
National Cohesion in Africa (2019) (0)
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Ghana: Feasibility of a Faith-Based Organizational approach/Prevention Des Maladies Cardiovasculaires Au Ghana: Faisabilite D'une Approche Organisationnelle Basee Sur la religion/Prevencion De Las Enfermedades Cardiovasculares En Ghana: Viabilidad De Un Enfoque O (2011) (0)

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