
Expertise
Global Health, HIV, Water and Sanitation, Gender Issues, Project Management, Evaluation, Capacity Building, Instructional Material Design
Bio
Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah, a clinical associate professor in the School of Public Health, has extensive experience in global health, HIV, water and sanitation, gender issues, project management, evaluation, capacity building and instructional material design. She is the author of a British Medical Association-nominated and highly recommended global health textbook published by Wiley & Sons titled “Lecture Notes: Global Health Issues, Challenges, and Global Action.” Dr. Armstrong-Mensah has held appointments as a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Center for Global Health; an ORISE Evaluation Fellow at the CDC National Center for Environmental Health; a subject matter expert, assistant professor and Global Health Track coordinator at the Morehouse School of Medicine; and a global health instructor at Emory University. She previously worked as the national program officer with the United Nations World Food Program in Ghana, where she established an HIV/AIDS project and was responsible for Girls Education and Supplementary Feeding Projects in five regions and 44 districts. In Ghana, she also consulted on water and sanitation issues for the World Bank, Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Dr. Armstrong-Mensah serves as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank on global health emergency prevention, preparedness and response. She has designed a study abroad program which she implements every summer, taking a diverse group of graduate and undergraduate students to Ghana to learn firsthand about contemporary global public health issues. Given her expertise in maternal and child health, she served as a first-round judge for the Emory University Global Health Institute’s 2023 Morningside Global Health Case Competition on Maternal and Child Health. Multidisciplinary student teams from 30 universities, including Harvard, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and five international universities, participated in the competition. The Morningside Global Health Case Competition encourages students to be creative and innovative when addressing a complex and critical global health challenge.
Dr. Armstrong-Mensah teaches global health to Master of Public Health students, works with students to co-author and publish research papers with a global focus in peer-reviewed journals, and is the recipient of the 2023 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Early Career Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding teaching and mentoring of students toward distinction in public health research, teaching and practice.