Benedicta Mensah

Dr. Mensah spent her fellowship year at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMTMR), University of Ghana in Accra under the mentorship of Michael Wilson, PhD and Elijah Paintsil, PhD, FAAP. Her research focused on identifying treatment barriers and risk factors for loss to follow-up in HIV-positive adults in the Fanteakwa district of Ghana, one of the highest HTV burden districts in Ghana.

Dr. Mensah obtained a PhD in Public health in 2018 at the University of Ghana, following a Master's degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Cyprus University of Technology/HSPH in 2012. Before her current position as a Postdoctoral fellow at the NMTMR, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts Medical school in 2018. Her research interest is in global health and infectious disease epidemiology. Her career goal is to be an independent researcher at a biomedical institute, utilizing her scientific training to provide solutions for global health problems.