Nadia Tagoe
Dr. Nadia Tagoe is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Department of the School of Public Health at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. She is multidisciplinary health policy and systems researcher with specific interest in global health policy and practice, research ecosystems and capacity development. She draws on social science, management, organisational, and behavioural science theories and frameworks to interrogate health policies and practices towards optimizing health outcomes. Her research focuses on research systems strengthening, ethics and justice in health research, and social and behavioural dimensions of health. Nadia coordinates the Decolonisation and Global Health Research Exchange Network co-hosted by institutions in Ghana, Kenya, and the UK. She is Co-Chair of the Ethics and Justice Technical Working Group of Health Systems Global. She is also an honorary lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM) Department of International Public Health. Nadia’s research career builds on over 15 years’ experience in international development, health research capacity strengthening (HRCS) programme implementation and institutional research systems strengthening in Ghana and similar contexts. She has a PhD in Global Health Development Policy and Practice from Open University and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and worked with the Centre for Global Health Research in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford for her postdoctoral fellowship. She is a passionate advocate for equity and accountability in global health and ensures that these principles are underscored in her work.