Faculty and Staff Profile

Stella Lartey

Educational Background

2020, University of Tasmania, Australia. PhD (Medical Studies)

2022, University of Calgary, Canada. MA (Economics)

2014, International University of Japan, Japan. MA (International Development)

2011, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. Master of Public Health

2008, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. B.Ed (Health Sciences)

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Stella Lartey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Clemson University. She was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis, TN (2023-2024), served as Lecturer (Academic Teaching and Research) and Course Director at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, U.K. (2021-2023), and has more than ten years combined experience working as national coordinator, policy monitoring and evaluation officer and other related roles with the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Services in Ghana.

She has worked in health services operations and research and has a global perspective of creating access and ensuring equity in healthcare for children and older adults. She is a co-investigator on a $5M HRSA GWEP grant that seeks to address Tennessee’s poor health rankings, dementia care needs, and health profession shortfall.

While combining skills in epidemiology, health economics and health services research to work to evaluate interventions, her research has mostly been grouped into the following:

1. healthy aging, cognitive health, and chronic disease (obesity, CVDs) epidemiology;
2. health economics and outcomes research including cost-effectiveness analysis; cost-utility analysis; measuring quality of life, costs, QALYs, productivity, survival, mortality, and life expectancy and studying social and economic determinants of health (SEDoH), and;
3. research aimed to improve healthcare access and build effectiveness and efficiency improvements in health interventions. She approaches research from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on methods and theories from public health, epidemiology, health and development economics.

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