Ohemaa Poku

Ohemaa Poku is a PhD Candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests include cross-cultural interpretations of illness and how stigma impacts access to psychosocial care, particularly for Black American and African populations. She is also interested in designing and employing cross-cultural measurements to determine the burden of mental illness and then translating these measures into capacity-building and program design. Prior to JHSPH, Ohemaa worked with the Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities at Boston University and the Columbia University Global Mental Health Program. She has an MPH in Global Health and Research Methods and a BA in History and International Development.