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Research
Latest papers
Understanding the healthcare services and social support needs of patients with end-stage kidney disease in Ghana.
BMC nephrology · 2026
Factors affecting access to dialysis for patients with end-stage kidney disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review.
Nursing open · 2023
Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the context of the health MDGs: an empirical evaluation using propensity score matching.
Health economics · 2010 · first author
Latest funding
- $53,482
Gender dimensions of transnational ageing among Black African immigrants in Canada: Exploring the geographies of identity and belonging
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $71,916
International Students' Lived Experience and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $499,518
I am because we are - amplifying Sub-Saharan African immigrants' resilience and ability to thrive
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Understanding the healthcare services and social support needs of patients with end-stage kidney disease in Ghana.
Japiong M, Landy CK, Fox MT, Mensah J, Adatara P, Ibrahim MM
Factors affecting access to dialysis for patients with end-stage kidney disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review.
Japiong M, Landy CK, Fox MT, Mensah J, Adatara P
Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the context of the health MDGs: an empirical evaluation using propensity score matching.
Mensah J, Oppong JR, Schmidt CM
Gender dimensions of transnational ageing among Black African immigrants in Canada: Exploring the geographies of identity and belonging
Principal investigators: Mensah, Joseph
Keywords: Transnational ageing; Gender; Identity; Belonging; African immigrants; Ghanaians; Somalis
International Students' Lived Experience and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Principal investigators: Firang, David
Keywords: International students; COVID-19; pandemic; resilience; universities; Ontario; Supports
I am because we are - amplifying Sub-Saharan African immigrants' resilience and ability to thrive
Keywords: African migrants; resilience; communalism; gendered intersections; transnationals; participatory action research; constructivist grounded theory; mixed methods
I am because we are - amplifying Sub-Saharan African immigrants' resilience and ability to thrive
Keywords: African migrants; resilience; communalism; gendered intersections; transnationals; participatory action research; constructivist grounded theory; mixed methods
I am because we are - amplifying Sub-Saharan African immigrants' resilience and ability to thrive
Keywords: African migrants; resilience; communalism; gendered intersections; transnationals; participatory action research; constructivist grounded theory; mixed methods
To stay or not to stay: the geographies of immigrant integration, transnationalism, and return intentions among African immigrants in Canada
Principal investigators: Mensah, Joseph
Keywords: immigration; integration; transnationalism; return intentions; Africans; Canada
The provision of higher education for long-term refugees Dadaab camp, Kenya
Principal investigators: Giles, Wenona M.
Keywords: protracted refugee situations; Dadaab refugee camps; tertiary education; distance education; portable degree programs; technology transfer; knowledge transfer; participatory action research; interdisciplinary; human rights; educational equity; voice
African immigrants in Canada: balancing national and ethnoracial identities in an era of accelerated transnationalism
Principal investigators: Mensah, Joseph
Keywords: African immigrants; ethnicity; national identity; transnationalism; Canada
The dialectics of transnational religious practices and identities: the case of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto
Principal investigators: Mensah, Joseph
Keywords: transnationalism; religion; Ghanaian immigrants; Toronto; dialectics
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