Sandra B. Kusitor, PhD

Currently, Dr. Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor’s research focuses on three distinct, yet related areas of population health: population shifts (disease patterns and mortality, urbanization, dynamics of family change,); public health nutrition (nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCD), foodways, the nexus between food environment and health), and governance (food system governance, health system governance).

Dr. Kushitor is skillful in both qualitative and quantitative research methodology. Her recent work has transcended boundaries through the use of transdisciplinary research methods. Her publications have focused on NCD risk factors, hypertension prevalence, treatment and control, health system response to NCDs, and food system governance in Ghana, Eswatini, and South Africa. Her work has influenced food system innovations in the Oforikrom Municipality in Ghana and the Western Cape Province in South Africa through Transformation-labs and policy dialogues with public officials and market women.

Dr. Kushitor has worked as a project manager at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Food Security Initiative, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Dr. Kushitor is currently a full-time lecturer at the Ensign College of Public Health. As a lecturer at Ensign, Sandra teaches, supervises, and mentors students enrolled in the Master of Public Health program. Sandra contributes to community engagement through the projects she oversees. Findings from these community activities inform her teaching and vice versa.