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Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Josep Adu.

Dr. Joseph Adu

DepartmentNursing
Areas of ExpertiseMental health and mental illness stigma in the Global North and South; Social determinant of health; Maternal healthcare delivery and pregnancy outcomes in Ghana; Noncommunicable disease policies and management in Ghana

Dr. Joseph Adu is a Black postdoctoral scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University with a research interest in mental illness stigma and Black families’ mental health in Canada and the Global South. Dr. Adu is currently working on ways to reduce mental illness stigma in Black Families and Communities in the Greater Toronto Area. Dr. Adu is a highly skilled practitioner with over 20 years of international experience working in the fields of healthcare and education. He has extensive teaching in health behavior, social determinants of health, health promotion, health sociology, health psychology, and community mental health. Dr. Adu currently serves as an academic editor for PlosOne Global Health Journal and a reviewer for the International Journal of Homelessness and the Qualitative Health Research Journal.