Biography
Professor Deborah Atobrah is the Director of the Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CENGENSA) and an Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies. Prof Atobrah holds a PhD and an MPhil in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and a BSc from the University of Ghana Business School. She has two Post Graduate Certificates from the University of Bergen Norway: Global Health Challenges (2010) and Global Poverty and Development (2008). Prof Atobrah won the Rockefeller Residency Award at the Bellagio Center of Rockefeller Foundation in 2012, and the Duke University Provost Travel Award 2013. In 2015, she became a Fellow of Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health’s prestigious Takemi Program in Global Health. In 2014, she was consulted to evaluate the gendered impacts of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s water projects in Ghana. She also contributed a chapter on Ghana to the Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World, commissioned by UNWomen. Since 2018, Deborah has been a member of the Gender Working Group of the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation on the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Support Programme on Climate Change. Prior to her appointment as Director of CEGENSA, she was the coordinator of University of Ghana Required Courses. Deborah’s research interests are in cultures of gender, social exclusion and health, family care for the chronically ill, Socio-cultural aspects of non-communicable diseases, abd qualitative research methodologies.