Portia Nartey, MSW, MSP

Portia is a first year Social Work Ph.D. student at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from the University of Ghana, as well as dual Masters in Social Work and Social Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining the Brown School, Portia worked with Non-Profits in Ghana as a projects manager, where she spearheaded the implementation of health and educational projects aimed at improving the economic wellbeing of women and children in deprived rural communities in southern Ghana. She is currently a research associate with the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) at the Brown School, where she coordinates and supports multiple NIH-funded studies. Portia’s research interests are aimed at designing, adapting and testing evidence-based culturally-responsive interventions that address the multilevel factors including poverty and gender norms that undermine the socioeconomic well-being of adolescent girls and women in low-resourced communities globally.