Fidelia N. A. Ohemeng

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Education:   Phd (Sociology), University of Ghana, Legon, 2007-2012
                    M.A. (Sociology with Specialization in Gerontology), Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, On, Canada, 2000-2003
                    B.A. (Sociology with Psychology), University of Ghana, 1996-1999

Research Interest:

Dr Fidelia N.A. Ohemeng is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana. Her research areas are Sociology of Health, Gender, and Sociology of Death and Dying. Her research focuses on the nexus between the environment, climate change and health, gender-based violence with an interest in intimate partner violence, and funeral rites in Ghana. She has experience in multi-disciplinary research and have collaborated with colleagues from the Centre for Biodiversity and conservation Science, Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies, and School of Public Health. She is also an affiliate at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana. 

Courses Taught Currently

SOCI 223: Traditional Ghanaian Social Institutions

SOCI 224: Social Structure of Modern Ghana

SOCI 439: Gender Studies

SOCI 448: Culture and Reproductive Health

SOCI 613 Gender Sociology

SOCI 716: Gerontology

SOCI 722: Sociology of Gender

Publications:

Dwomoh D, Yeboah I, Ndejjo R, Kabwama SN, Aheto JM, Liu A, et al. (2023) COVID-19 outbreak control strategies and their impact on the provision of essential health services in Ghana: An exploratory-sequential study. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0279528. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279528

Adu, J., Roemer, M., Page, G., Dekonor, E., Akanlu, G., Fofie, C., ... & Dwomoh, D. (2023). Expanding access to early medical abortion services in Ghana with telemedicine: findings from a pilot evaluation. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 31(4), 2250621.

Ofori, B. Y., Ameade, E. P., Ohemeng, F., Musah, Y., Quartey, J. K., & Owusu, E. H. (2023). Climate change knowledge, attitude and perception of undergraduate students in Ghana. PLOS Climate, 2(6), e0000215.

Ayivor, J. S., Lawson, T. E., Ohemeng, F. & Ntiamoa- Baidu, Y. (2022). Conservation perspectives and perception of bats as reservoirs of zoonotic diseases in Ghana. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2022.2120650.

Ohemeng, F., Small, B., & Molinari, V. (2019). Social Activities and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Ghana. Journal of Population Ageing, 1-21.

Ohemeng, F., Lawson, E. T., Ayivor, J. S., & Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y. (2019). Changing attitudes and behaviour towards bats by communities that live close to bat roosts after the 2013 Ebola viral disease outbreak in West Africa. Journal of Global Health Reports, 3.

Lawson, E. T., Ayivor, J. S., Ohemeng, F., & Ntiamoa‐Baidu, Y. (2019). Avoiding bites and scratches? Understanding the public health implication of human–bat interactions in Ghana. Zoonoses and public health, 66(1), 108-116.

Ohemeng, F., Ayivor, J. S., Lawson, E. T., & Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y. (2018). Local Classification of Fever and Treatment Sought among Communities at Risk of Bat-Borne Zoonotic Diseases in Ghana. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0201526. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201526

Ohemeng, F. (2017). Challenging the traditional funeral practices among the Akan. Legon Journal of Sociology. Vol. 6(1).

Abraham, A. Y., Ohemeng, F. N. A., & Ohemeng, W. (2017). Female labour force participation: evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Social Economics, 44(11), 1489-1505.

Ansah, G., Anderson, J., Anamzoya, A. A., & Ohemeng, F. (2017). 'Bra, sen, yenkↄ...that is all I know in Akan': how female migrants from rural north survive with minimum bilingualism in urban markets in Ghana. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 6(1), 49-74.

Ohemeng, F. N. A. & Tonah, S. (2017). "I want to go gently": how AIDS patients in Ghana envisage their deaths. OMEGA--Journal of Death and Dying, 75(4), 395-410.

Ohemeng, F. (2012/2013). HIV disclosure in Ghana: the underlying gender dimension to trust and care. Ghana Studies, 15&16: 135-157.

Grants:  

University of Ghana Research Fund, 2013. Received GHC 25,000. In collaboration with Gladys Ansah (PI), Jemima Anderson, Alhassan Anamzoya

Research Centre:  Member of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana, 2006-present