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Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah

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Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah

Clinical Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director    Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences

Overview

Education

Certificate in Data Use for Program Managers, USAID and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, 2011
Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation, MEASURE and USAID Evaluation, 2011
Ph.D. in International Affairs and Development, Clark Atlanta University, 2007
Certificate in Training and Development, Institute of Personnel and Development, Aarhus, Denmark, 1995
MA in International Affairs, The University of Ghana, 1992
BA in Sociology, The University of Ghana, 1990

Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences at the Georgia State University School of Public Health. She teaches Introduction to Chronic and Infectious Diseases, Health Equity and Disparities: Urban and Global Health Challenges, and Introduction to Program Implementation and Evaluation. Dr. Armstrong-Mensah previously taught Global Health to students enrolled in the Schools Master of Public Health Program.

Dr. Armstrong-Mensah was recently a Health Scientist and ORISE Fellow with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Global Health and National Center for Environmental Health, respectively. She was also a part-time Instructor at Emory University where she taught undergraduate students in the School of Human Health, Essentials of Global Health for a semester. Prior to that, she was Assistant Professor, Global Health Track Coordinator and Subject Matter Expert at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Georgia. At Morehouse School of Medicine, she taught global health to first and second year MPH students and worked with the Prevention Research Center first as program Manager on an HIV/AIDS project and later as an evaluator with the evaluation team.

Dr. Armstrong-Mensah also worked as the National Program Officer with the United Nations World Food Program in Ghana where she established an HIV/AIDS project and was responsible for Girls Education and Supplementary Feeding Projects in five regions and 44 districts in Ghana. In Ghana, Dr. Armstrong-Mensah also consulted on water and sanitation issues for the World Bank, Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Dr. Armstrong-Mensah has extensive experience in global health, water and sanitation, gender issues, project management, evaluation, capacity building, and instructional material design. She is the author of a just published global health text book (Lecture Notes: Global Health Issues, Challenges, and Global Action) published by Wiley & Sons. Her research interests include gender issues, maternal and child health, and program evaluation.

Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah's CV

Publications

Publications

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2023, December 1). Why Stigma Remains the Biggest Challenge in the Fight Against HIV.  360info.org.

Armstrong-Mensah E, Ofori E, Alema-Mensah E and Agyarko-Poku T. (2023). HIV destigmatization: perspectives of people living with HIV in the Kumasi Metropolis in Ghana. Front. Reprod. Health 5:1169216. doi: 10.3389/frph.2023.1169216

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Mitha, N., & McNair, A. (2023). The mental health of Syrian refugees in the United States: Examining critical risk factors and major barriers to mental health care access. International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.21106/ijtmrph.431

International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.21106/ijtmrph.431

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Raheed N, Williams, D., Moyer, K., Tetteh, A., & Alema-Mensah, E.   (2022). Implicit Racial Bias, Health Care Provider Attitudes, and Perceptions of Health Care Quality Among African American College Students in Georgia, USA. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. doi: 10.1007/s40615-022-01439-8

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Tetteh, A., Ofori, E, & Okosheuhi, O. (2022). HIV-related Stigma. Scholarly Community Encyclopedia.

Armstrong-Mensah, E.A.; Tetteh, A.K.; Ofori, E.; Ekhosuehi, O. (2022). Voluntary counseling and testing, antiretroviral therapy access, and HIV-related stigma: global progress and challenges. International Journal of Environmental Research and. Public Health, 19, 6597. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116597.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ramsey-White, K., Alema-Mensah, E., & Yankey, B.  (2022). Preparing students for the public health workforce: The role of effective high-impact educational practices in undergraduate public health program curricula. Frontiers in Public Health Education.

Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2022). Transitioning public health study abroad program to virtual format during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 6(1). Doi:10.21106/ijtmrph.399.

Mosley, C., Andrews, C., & Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2022). HIV field study in Ghana: A comparative analysis. International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 6(1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.21106/ijtmrph.396.

Willis, A., Addo, M., Johnson, C., Yoder, L., Resler, S., Young, L., & Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2022). A field study water and sanitation issues in Ghana: A comparative analysis. International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.21106/ijtmrph.395.

Gibson, L., Coldiron, J., Peters, A., Lamsal,S., Edeh, G., Masha, D., & Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2022). A field study of women’s reproductive health: A comparative analysis. International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.21106/ijtmrph.393.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Dada, D., Bowers, A., Muhammad, A., Nnoli, C.  (2021). Geographic, health care access, racial discrimination, and socioeconomic determinants of maternal mortality in Georgia, United States. International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS, 10(2), 278-286. Doi: 10.21106/ijma.524. Epub 2021 Dec 13. PMID: 34938596; PMCID: PMC8679596.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., & Tetteh, A. (2021). HIV Prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: Where Are Adolescents in the Continuum? International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 5 (2), 254-258.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ebiringa, D.P., White, K., & Coldiron, J. (2021). Genital chlamydia trachomatis infection: Prevalence, risk factors and adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes in children and women in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS, 10 (2), 251-257.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Tetteh, A. K., & Tetteh, G. R. (2021). COVID-19 pandemic: Face mask mandates, hospitalization, and infection rates in the United States. International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health, 5(2), 113–124. https://doi.org/10.21106/ijtmrph.365

Armstrong-Mensah, E., & Tetteh, A. (2021). HIV rapid testing and implications for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS, 10 (1), 1-6.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Dada, Damilola, Rupashinghe, & R, Whateley, H. (2021). Injecting substance use in prisons in the United States: A case for needle exchange programs. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 47 (3), 273-279.  doi: 10.1080/00952990.2021.1872587.

Armstrong-Mensah. Tenney, B., & Hawley, V. (2021). Ebola virus disease in sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing gaps to handle future outbreaks. Research in Health Science, 6(3), 28-33. doi: 10.22158/rhs.v6n3p28.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Patel, H., Parekh, P., & Lee, C. Mental Health Inequities and Disparities among African American Adults in the United States: The Role of Race. (2020). Research in Health Science, 5(3), 23- 37.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ramsey-White, K., Yankey, B., & Self-Brown, S. (2020). COVID-19 and distance learning: Effects on Georgia state university school of public health students. Frontiers in Public Health, doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.576227.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ruiz, K., Fofana, A., & Hawley, V. (2020).  Perinatal HIV transmission prevention: Challenges among women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS, 9(3), 354-359.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Bills, R., & Reyes, L. (2020). Culture, depression, and coping mechanisms among African Americans. Research in Health Science, 5(3), 102-111.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Woolcock, D., Lee, C., & Torres-Diaz, M. (2020). Maternal Opioid Abuse and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the United States. Research in Health Science, 5(4), 78-86.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ramsey-White, K., & Alema-Mensah, E. (2019). Integrative Learning in US Undergraduate Public Health Education: A Review of Student Perceptions of Effective High-Impact Educational Practices at Georgia State University. Frontiers in Public Health Education, doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.0010.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Hernandez, P., Huka, M., Suarez, A., Akosile, A., Joseph, A., & Ramsey-White, Kim. HIV Stigma among Women and Adolescent Girls in South Africa: Removing Barriers to Facilitate Prevention. (2019). Madridge Journal of AIDS, 3(1), 69-74. doi: 10.18689/mja-1000112.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Harris, K., Ngom, V., & Faith Omotor. Reducing Inequities in Adverse Birth Outcomes among African American Women in the United States: A Focus on the Life Course Perspective. (2019). Research in Health Science, 4(4), 281-293.  doi: https://doi.org/10.22158/rhs.v4n4p281.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Woolcock, D., Jisoo Jeon, J., Gaur, P. (2019). E-cigarette Risk Factors and Effects on Adolescent Health in the United States. (2019). Research in Health Science, 4(4), 357doi:10.22158/rhs.v4n4p357.

Armstrong-Mensah, E., & Ndiaye, S. (2018). Global Health Security Agenda Implementation: A Case for Community Engagement. Health Security, 16 (4), 217-223. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/hs.2017.0097.

Abdallah, I., Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah, Ernest Alema-Mensah, and Cheryl Jones. (2017). Demographic and Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Trichomonas vaginalis among South African HIV Positive Men with Genital Ulcer Disease: A cross-sectional study. British Medical Journal, 7(7), e013486. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2016-013486. (Refereed)

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ramsey-White, K., Pavão, C. A.O, McCool, S., & Bohannon, K. (2017). HIV/AIDS Prevention: Reducing social stigma to facilitate prevention in the developing world. Madridge Journal of AIDS, 1(1), 12-16.

Yancey, E., Mayberry, R., Armstrong-Mensah, E., Collins, D., Goodin, L., Cureton, S., Trammell, E., & Yuan, K. (2012). The Community-based Participatory Intervention Effect of “HIV-RAAP. American Journal of Health Behavior, 36 (4), 555-568. 

Armstrong-Mensah, E. Mainstreaming Gender into Development Projects: The   Consequences of Leaving Women out and Practical Requirements for Success. (2012) International Affairs Forum Online Journal. http://www.ia-forum.org

Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2010). HIV/AIDS and Human Security: A Focus on Women and Economic Security in Southern Africa. International Affairs Forum Online Journal. http://www.ia-forum.org

Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2007). Mainstreaming Gender into Development Projects, in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy in International Affairs and Development degree.

Yankson, B., Laryea, N.O. & Dotse, F.M. (1997). Integrating gender issues into water programmes. In Pickford, J. et al. (Eds.). Water and sanitation for all - Partnerships and innovations: Proceedings of the 23rd Water, Engineering and Development Centre International Conference, Durban, South Africa, 1-5 September 1997 (pp 343-345). WEDC: Loughborough University Press.

Yankson, B., Laryea, N.O. & Dotse, F.M. (1996). Operation and maintenance: women, what role? In Pickford, J. et al. (Eds,). Reaching the unreached - Challenges for the 21st century: Proceedings of the 22nd Water, Engineering and Development Centre International Conference, New Delhi, India, 9-13 September 1996 (pp. 158-159). WEDC: Loughborough University Press.

Dotse, F.M., Laryea, N.O., & Yankson, B. (1995). Can rural women manage water?

In Pickford, J.et al. (Eds.). Sustainability of Water and Sanitation Systems, Conference Proceedings of the 21st Water, Engineering and Development Centre International Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 4-8 September 1995 (pp. 26-27). WEDC: Loughborough University Press.

Yankson, B. (1992). Conflict Management in the International Community: A Case Study of the Gulf Crisis, in partial fulfillment of the Master’s in International Affairs degree.

Yankson, B. (1990). Abortion Amongst the Educated Youth: A Case Study of Legon Students, in partial fulfillment of the Bachelors of Sociology degree.

Textbook

Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2017). Lecture notes global health issues, challenges and global action.  oboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Book Chapters

Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ramsey-White, K. & Alema-Mensah, E. (2020). Integrative learning in US undergraduate public health education: A review of student perceptions of effective high-impact educational practices at Georgia State University. In Harver, et al (Eds.). Integrative Learning in U.S. Undergraduate Public Health Education: Effective High-Impact Practices (pp. 91-97). Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA.  Doi: 10.3389/978-2-88963-426-2.

Armstrong-Mensah, E. Cultural Competence in Healthcare Delivery among Immigrant Populations in the United States: Identifying and Addressing the Challenges. (2019). In A. Santella (Ed.). Master of Public Health Competencies: A Case Study Approach (pp. 163-168). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Burlington, Maryland.

Griffin, J., Yancey, E., & Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2013). Building partnerships in community-based participatory research. In D. Blumenthal et al (Eds.). Community-Based Participatory Health Research: Issues, Methods, and Translation to Practice. (pp 19-34). New York: Springer.

Manuals and Trainers Guides/Educational Materials

  • Community Management Handbook Volume 1 for WATSAN Committee of the Volta Region Community Water Supply
  • Community Management Handbook Volume 2 for WATSAN Committee of the Volta Region Community Water Supply
  • WATSAN Manual for the World Bank International Development Agency Government of Ghana Financed Community Water and Sanitation
  • Manual on Selected Participatory Rapid Appraisal Methods for GTZ Integrated Crop Protection Project.
  • Training Handbook for Key Players in the Transfer of Small Water Systems for the Ghana Water and Sewerage
  • Total Community Mobilization (TCM) Field Officers Manual for Conducting HIV/AIDS Radio Drama Listening Groups on the CDC/Government of Botswana HIV/AIDS Project (BOTUSA) in Botswana.
  • Trainers Guide, Volume 1 for WATSAN Committees of the Volta Region Community Water Supply Program.
  • Trainers Guide, Volume 2 for WATSAN Committees of the Volta Region Community Water Supply Program.
  • Trainers Guide on Selected Participatory Rapid Appraisal Methods for GTZ Integrated Crop Protection Project

Proceedings and Abstracts

  • Armstrong-Mensah, E., Ramsey-White, K., & Alema-Mensah, E. (2021). Preparing students for the public health workforce: the role of effective high-impact practices in undergraduate public health program curricula. [Abstract]. Frontiers Journal of Public Health Education.
  • Armstrong-Mensah, E., Tetteh, A., Ofori, E., & Ekhosuehi, O. (2021). Global HIV prevention efforts: Progress, challenges, and action needed. [Abstract]. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
  • Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2019). HIV prevention in developing countries: Where are adolescents in the continuum? [Abstract]. APHA  2019 Annual Meeting and Expo, Philadelphia, USA, 2 -6 November 2019. 
  • Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2018). HIV prevention in resource poor setting: Where are adolescents in the continuum? [Abstract].  2nd International Expo and Conference on HIV/AIDS, Toronto, Canada, 16-18 September 2018.
  • Armstrong-Mensah, E. (2013). Global health partnerships: Working towards the attainment of the millennium development goals-a global strategy with local implementation. [Abstract]. Think Global, Act Global 141 APHA Conference, Boston, USA, 2-6 November 2013.

Editorial and Reviewer Activities

2022      Editor of Special Issue, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) & International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (IJMA)

2021       Ad hoc reviewer, International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (IJMA), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health (IJTMRPH,) & International Journal of Tropical Medicine (IJTM)

2020      Ad hoc reviewer, International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (IJMA), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), & British Medical Journal (BMC) Public Health

2019       Ad hoc reviewer, British Medical Journal (BMC) Public Health & Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services