The Expert is a medical anthropologist and public health expert with nearly a decade of experience in global health. She has specific expertise in women’s health and reproductive health in West and East Africa. She is presently a Senior Researcher at Dodowa Health Research Centre of the Research and Development Division of Ghana Health Service, in Accra, Ghana, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
LGBTQ, Child abuse, sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence/domestic violence, forced marraige, trafficking, FGM/FGC, risk of destitution/homelessness, land tenure disputes, ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution, torture/risk of political persecutin/risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors, risk of retaliation, safe internal relocation, sufficiency of protection, healthcare access, health systems, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, other health issues
Sina, A., Wallace, L.J., Arthur, J.A., Kwakye, S., & Adongo, P.B. (2021). Self-medication perceptions and practice among pregnant women attending Antenatal clinic in Wa Municipality, Ghana. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 25(4):89-98. DOI: 10.29063/ajrh2021/v25i4.10.
Adu, M., Wallace, L.J., Lartey, K.F., Arthur, J.A., Oteng, K.F., Dwomoh, S, Owusu-Antwi, R., Larsen-Reindorf, R. Agyapong, V.I.O. (2021). Prevalence and correlates of likely major depressive disorder among the adult population in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ghana Medical Journal, 18(13):7106. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18137106
Wallace L.J., Nouvet, E. Bortolussi, R., Arthur, J.A., Amporfu, E., Arthur, A., Barimah, K.B., & 19 others. (2020). COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts on vulnerable populations and sustaining home-grown solutions. Canadian Journal of Public Health. Oct;111(5):649-653.doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00399-y
Wallace, L.J., & Adongo, P.B. (2018). Change and continuity in Kassena men’s perceptions of family planning in northern Ghana. Human Organization, 77(2), 135-145. DOI: 10.17730/0018-7259-77.2.135
Wallace, L.J. (2017). It doesn’t match my blood: Contraceptive side effects and Kassena women in northern Ghana. In Gender, feminism and global cross-cultural connections. Edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Wallace, L.J. (2017) Case study: Culture, language and privilege. In Comprehensive midwifery: The role of the midwife in health care practice, education and research, an interactive guide to the theory and evidence of practice. Edited by Eileen K. Hutton & Beth Murray-Davis. Montreal: Pressbooks.