Dr. Lauren J. Wallace is a medical anthropologist and a public health researcher. Her research has focused primarily on health systems and policy in West Africa, where she has studied family planning, adolescent wellbeing, priority setting for maternal and reproductive health, mental health, community-based primary health care, and urban health, using participatory action research, ethnography, and implementation science. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Dodowa Health Research Centre (Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service), a Researcher in the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management at the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana and a consultant with Communitology. Dr. Wallace has been a Principal Investigator, Country Principal Investigator or Co- Investigator on research programmes funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She was formerly a CIHR Vanier Scholar.
Dr. Wallace holds a PhD in Anthropology of Health from McMaster University (2012- 2017) and a B.A.S. in Arts and Sciences with minors in Anthropology and Biology from the University of Guelph (2007-2011). She completed post-doctoral training (2017-2019) in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University and in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana.
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