Godfred Boateng

Bio

Dr. Godfred Boateng is a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Humanitarianism, an Assistant Professor of Global Health, a Director of the Global and Environmental Health Lab, and a Faculty Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University. He is also the Co-Director of the Canadian African Central American Network for OneHealth Monitoring & Evaluation at York University. Dr. Boateng is an expert in designing and applying culturally relevant scalable methodologies to understand the multidimensional factors and processes that shape Health and health equity across spatial scales (household, community, institutional, national) and how these factors can be addressed sustainably. His transdisciplinary research program focuses on Resource insecurity, Health, and sustainable livelihoods; Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Health Effects; Social inequity in Health systems; Quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19-related health effects. His current research in the area of One Health focuses on the monitoring and evaluation of the Terraba River Watershed in Costa Rica.

Dr. Boateng’s research is supported through external funding sources, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, International Development Research Centre, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, United States Health Resources & Service Administration, the National Institute of Transportation and Communities, and the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Dr. Boateng is the Lead Associate Editor for a special issue on Measuring Health Inequalities among Vulnerable Populations in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Before joining York University, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard, Northwestern, and Cornell University.