Stephen Nkansah-Amankra

Assitant Professor of Community Health

Stephen Nkansah-Amankra obtained his BPharm (Equivalent to PharmD in the US), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. He later received his both his MA in Demography and his MPH degree from the University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana. He would go on to obtain a PhD in Health Promotion, Education & Behavior (Minor in Epidemiology) from the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Dr. Nkansah-Amankra has an extensive international public health practice experience in program planning, implementation and evaluation for improved maternal and child health programs, adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs. Stephen has a wide range of experiences in working with governmental, non-governmental and International Multilateral and Bilateral aid agencies. He has extensive international public health practice and experience in program planning, implementation and evaluation for improved maternal and child health programs, adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs.

In his dissertation research, Dr. Nkansah-Amankra examined disparities in low birth weight and preterm births across neighborhoods of South Carolina using Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring data, 2000-2003 and 2000 U.S., census data. He has already submitted three manuscripts for publication and two others with the same dataset are in progress.