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Dr Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie

Emmanuel Nii-Boye

Associate Professor of Community and Applied Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Ghana

Email: enquarshie@ug.edu.gh

Profile

Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, PhD., is a child and adolescent mental health advocate and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. He has a PhD in Psychological Sciences (with research focus on Suicidology and Applied Health Psychology) from the University of Leeds, UK. Nii is a Community and Applied Health Psychologist, but he also has a strong inclination towards General Psychology. Nii’s research focuses on the epidemiology, understanding and prevention of child sexual abuse, and self-harm and suicide (particularly among adolescents and young adults) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He is passionate about developing community-based and in-school interventions and preventive approaches to promote young people’s mental health in LMICs, particularly those within sub-Saharan Africa. Nii is licensed by the Ghana Psychology Council, and he is the founding and current President of the Association for Suicide Prevention Ghana (GASP).

Research

Publications

Please see here:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ik6gS2EAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Expertise

Child and adolescent mental health promotion; Child sexual abuse prevention, Self-ham and suicide prevention among young people; Community- and school-based mental health interventions
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