Phillipina Schandorf is a public health researcher and teacher with the Ministry of Health in Ghana. She holds a first degree in Biological Sciences and a master’s degree in public health, both from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. Her career path has involved working as part of research teams committed to strengthening health systems by producing evidence to support the implementation of effective health policies. One of such initiatives is the home-based care programme for the management of fevers in children for the Malaria control programme in Ghana. She has also been involved in the training of District Health Research Teams and student nurses and midwives in the conduct of operational research.
She is extremely passionate about the planning and implementation of strategies that facilitate improved health, especially for vulnerable groups such as women and children, leading to improved global health. It is this passion which drives her PhD research on the impact of climate stressors on mental health at the Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Department of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana.
Research Keywords
Household air pollution; climate change; mental health
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
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