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)

Courses Taught

HLTH 8210 - Health Research I: Design and Measurement

HLTH 8020: Health Economics

Profile

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.

Research Interests

Healthy aging, cognitive health, and chronic disease (obesity, CVDs) epidemiology; health economics and outcomes research; creating and improving healthcare access.

Research Publications

1. Bradshaw LE, Wyatt LA, Brown SJ, …Lartey ST, et al. Emollient application from birth to prevent eczema in high-risk children: the BEEP RCT. Health Technology Assessment (Winchester, England). 2024;28(29):1-116.


2. Yu X, Zoh RS, Fluharty DA, … Lartey ST, Allison DB. Misstatements, misperceptions, and mistakes in controlling for covariates in observational research. eLife 2024;12(e82268).


3. Lartey ST, Wasantha Parakrama Jayawardene, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Xiwei Chen, Nana Gletsu- Miller, David K. Lohrmann. Unintended Consequences? COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions and Childhood Obesity. JAMA Network Open (2023).


4. Sach TH, Lartey ST, Davies C, et al. Emollients for preventing atopic eczema: Cost-effectiveness analysis of the BEEP trial. Clinical & Experimental Allergy;n/a(n/a) 2023;00:1–9. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14381.


5. Lartey ST, Lung T, Serhal S, et al. Healthcare expenditure, and its socio-demographic and clinical predictors in Australians with poorly controlled asthma. PloS One. 2023;18(1):e0279748.


6. Bradshaw LE, Wyatt LA, Brown SJ, …Lartey ST et al. Emollients for prevention of atopic dermatitis: 5-year findings from the BEEP randomized trial. Allergy. Oct 19, 2022.
   


7. Mestre LM, Lartey ST, Ejima K, et al. Body Mass Index, Obesity, and Mortality– Part I: Associations and Limitations. Nutrition Today. 2023;58(3):92-99.


8. Pavela G, Yi N, Mestre LM, Lartey S, Xun P, Allison DB. The associations between relative and absolute body mass index with mortality rate based on predictions from stigma theory. SSM - Population Health. 2022;19:101200.


9. Daniella E Chusyd, Steven N Austad, Andrew W Brown, …, Stella Lartey, Edward Mannix, Colby J Vorland, David B Allison. From Model Organisms to Humans, the Opportunity for More Rigor in Methodologic and Statistical Analysis, Design, and Interpretation of Aging and Senescence Research. The Journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2021- 12, Journal article: PMID: 34950945.


10. Boateng GO, Lartey ST, Baiden P, et al. Measuring Hypertension Progression with Transition Probabilities: Estimates From the WHO SAGE Longitudinal Study. Frontiers in Public Health. 2021;9(304).


11. Kadoya Y, Watanapongvanich S, Yuktadatta P, Putthinun P, Lartey ST, Khan MSR. Willing or Hesitant? A Socioeconomic Study on the Potential Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine in Japan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(9):4864.


12. Paul Kowal and Stella Lartey. Box 4-4. Health Systems Issues in sub-Saharan Africa: Focus on Ghana and South Africa’s NCD Burdens in Older Populations (pp.73-74). In: He, Aboderin, Adjaye-Gbewonyo. Africa Aging: 2020 International Population Reports. US Census Bureau. 2020.


13. Lartey S, Si L, Lung T, et al. Impact of overweight and obesity on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and lifetime costs in the adult population of Ghana. BMJ Global Health. 2020;5(9):e003332.


14. Lartey, S.T., Si L., Otahal, P., de Graaff, B., Boateng, G.O., Biritwum, R.B., Minicuci, N., Kowal, P., Magnussen, C.G., & Palmer, A.J. (2020). Probabilities of Changing between Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obesity in Older Adults: the WHO SAGE Older Adults Longitudinal Study. Social Science and Medicine. 274(112821): 1-9.


15. Cox IA, Borchers Arriagada N, de Graaff B, Corte TJ, Glaspole I, Lartey S, et al. Health-related quality of life of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Respiratory Review. 2020;29(158):200154.


16. Lartey, S.T., de Graff, B., Magnussen, C.G., Boateng, G.O., Aikins M., Minicuci, N., Kowal, P., Lei, S., & Palmer, A. (2019) Health service utilization and direct healthcare costs associated with obesity in older adult population in Ghana. (2019). Health Policy and Planning. Czz147: 1–11.


17. Lartey, S.T., Magnussen, C.G., Si, L., Boateng, G.O., de Graff, B., Biritwum, R.B., Minicuci, N., Kowal, P., Blizzard, L., & Palmer, A (2019). Rapidly increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in older Ghanaian adults from 2007-2015: evidence from WHO-SAGE waves 1 & 2. PloS ONE, 14(8):e0215045.


18. Lartey, S.T., Si L., de Graaff, B., Hasnat, A., Biritwum, R.B., Minicuci, N., Kowal, P., Magnussen, C.G., & Palmer, A.J (2019). Evaluation of the association between health state utilities and obesity in sub- Saharan Africa: Evidence from WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) Wave 2. Value Health. 2019;22(9):1042–9.


19. Lartey, S.T., Magnussen, C.G., Lei, S., de Graff, B., Biritwum, R.B., Mensah, G., Yawson, A., Minicuci, N., Kowal, P., Boateng, G.O., & Palmer, A (2019). The Role of Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Household Wealth in Adult Obesity: Evidence from wave 2 of WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health. PloS ONE, 14(1), e0208491.


20. Boateng GO, Lartey ST, Baiden P, Si L, Biritwum RB, Minicuci N, et al. Measuring Hypertension Progression with Transition Probabilities: Estimates from the WHO SAGE Longitudinal Study. 2020.


21. Lartey, S.T., Hasnat, A., Si L., de Graaff, B., Magnussen, C.G., & Palmer, A.J. (2018). Evaluation of the association between health state utilities and obesity in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). Value in Health, 21(S1–S115).


22. Otchi, E.H, Bannerman, C., Lartey, S., et al. (2018). Patient safety situational analysis in Ghana. Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management. 23(6); 257–263.


23. Stella T. Lartey, Rasheda Khanam and Shingo Takahashi (2016). The impact of household wealth on child survival in Ghana. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 35(38).

Honors and Awards

• 2022: Finalist Award for Best Students’ Advisor, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia


• 2019: Honorary mention for the Nobuo Maeda International Research Award, 2019 American Public Health Association Conference


• 2018: Students’ Research Travel grant - Menzies Institute for Medical Research School worth AUD 2500 for use in my conferences in 2019.


• 2018: Semi-finalist award for abstract- International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 2018, Tokyo-Japan.

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