Prince Michael Amegbor
Prince Michael Amegbor
Assistant Professor of Global and Environmental Health
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Professional overview
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As a health geographer using big data and a multi-methods approach in his research on the environmental and social determinants of health, Dr. Prince Michael Amegbor is an assistant professor in the Department of Global and Environmental Health. He specializes in visualizing the geospatial distribution of risks and burdens on health that are associated with environmental exposures. He works to unravel how factors such as climate change, air pollution and other environmental exposures contribute to health inequalities, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and other geographic contexts (e.g., Denmark).
Prior to his appointment at GPH, Dr. Amegbor was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA) and the Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University (Denmark). He is also a guest researcher at Statistics Denmark and has worked as a co-task leader of two European Union Horizon 2020 Projects: REGREEN and ICARUS (Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems).
Dr. Amegbor has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals including Scientific Report, Health & Place and Applied Geography. He earned his PhD in human geography from Queen’s University in Ontario, and holds an MPhil in development geography from the University of Oslo. He obtained his undergraduate degree in geography and resource development from the University of Ghana, Legon.
Below are links to the results from ICARUS – Favorite Location Study published in the Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science journal:
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Education
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PhD, Department of Geography & Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, OntarioMPhil Developmental Geography, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayBA Geography & Resource Development, University of Ghana, Accra
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Honors and awards
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Principal's International Doctoral Award, Queen’s University (201520162017)Quota Scheme Scholarship, Department of Sociology & Human Geography, University of Oslo (201220132014)
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Areas of research and study
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Aging and the Life CourseAlternative MedicineChild HealthComplementary MedicineEnvironmental Public Health ServicesImmigrant HealthPublic Health PolicySocial Determinants of HealthSocio-cultural Identities and Health Seeking BehaviorsTraditional MedicineUrban GeographyViolence and VictimisationWomen's Health
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Publications
Publications
Climate-Relate Thermal Stress and Maternal Vulnerability: A Global Study of Pregnancy Outcomes Using Physiologically-Based Heat Indices
Failed retrieving data.Depression Risk and Urban Environmental Determinants in a Rapidly Urbanising African City: A Spatial Bayesian Analysis in Accra, Ghana
Failed retrieving data.Geographic and Temporal Differences in Sickle Cell Disease Hospitalizations in New York State from 2009–2022.
Failed retrieving data.Mapping Hypertension Risk and Its Socioecological Determinants in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA): A Spatial Bayesian Analysis.
Failed retrieving data.Quantifying personal exposure to traffic and household air pollution: a pilot study among street traders in Lagos, Nigeria
Failed retrieving data.Assessing the Effect of Pre- and Post-natal Environmental Exposures, Geographic Factors and Socio-Economic Conditions on Acute Respiratory Infections among Children Under Five in Sub-Saharan Africa – A Machine Learning Approach
Failed retrieving data.Burden of hemoglobinopathies and hemolytic anemias in the World Health Organization African region, 2000-2021: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study
Failed retrieving data.Effect Modification of Vegetation Cover on the Impact of Climate Anomalies and Air Pollution on Spontaneous Miscarriage: A Case Study of Ghana
Failed retrieving data.Exploring the effect of early-life climate anomalies on child growth in Sub-Saharan African context : Insight from the demographic & health survey
Failed retrieving data.Exploring the effect of early-life climate anomalies on child growth in Sub-Saharan African context: Insight from the demographic & health survey
Failed retrieving data.Kitchen cooking burns : A real danger for adults and children in Ghana
Failed retrieving data.Mapping Favorite and Stressful Places in Accra: Psychosocial and Environmental Insights from Public Participation GIS (PPGIS)
Failed retrieving data.Sensor-Based Micro-Level Observations on Stress Spatial Distribution: A Case Study of Accra
Failed retrieving data.Sensor-based Observation of Urban Stress in New York City
Failed retrieving data.The COVID-19 pandemic and self-reported food insecurity among women in Burkina Faso : evidence from the performance monitoring for action (PMA) COVID-19 survey data
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Failed retrieving data.The effect of climate anomalies and ambient air pollution on spontaneous miscarriage in Ghana.
Failed retrieving data.Urban Pulse: Mapping and Understanding the Risk Predictors of Hypertension in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) of Ghana
Failed retrieving data.Contributing Effects of Climate Change, Ambient Air Pollution and Environmental Assets on Childhood Health Outcomes: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Failed retrieving data.Exploring Early-life Climate Anomalies and Acute Respiratory Infections in Children Across Sub-Saharan Africa - A Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Perspective
Failed retrieving data.Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Failed retrieving data.Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systema
Failed retrieving data.Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Failed retrieving data.Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Failed retrieving data.Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
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