Lauren Wallace is a Canadian-Ghanaian medical anthropologist and public health expert with more than a decade of experience in global health. She has specific expertise in issues such as healthcare access, health systems’ capacity, mental illness, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, and LGBTQI rights in West Africa. She is currently a Research Associate at the Global Strategy Lab at York University in Canada. She was formerly a Senior Researcher at the Dodowa Health Research Centre of the Research and Development Division of Ghana Health Service, in Accra, Ghana.
LGBTQ, Child abuse, sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence/domestic violence, forced marriage, trafficking, FGM/FGC, risk of destitution/homelessness, ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution, torture/risk of political persecution/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
Amde, W., Wallace, L. & 15 others. (2025). What does it take to operationalise gender transformative approaches across different African contexts? African Journal of Reproductive Health, 29(6s):9-19.
Agblevor, E.A., Prempeh, P.A., Gyawu, B. Wallace, L., et al. (2025). Adolescent mental, sexual and reproductive health in Ghana: A stakeholder analysis of actors’ influence over policy formulation and implementation. Health Policy and Planning, 40(10): 1027- 1039, doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaf059.
Elsey, H., Abboah-Offei, M., Vidyasagaran, A. L., Anaseba, D, Wallace, L, et al. (2023). Implementation of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) in rural and urban Ghana: A history and systematic review of what works, for whom, and why. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2023.1105495
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
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.
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
Kapiriri, L., Lee, N-M, Wallace, %; Kwesiga, B. (2019). Beyond cost- effectiveness, morbidity and mortality: A comprehensive evaluation of priority setting for HIV programming in Uganda. BMC Public Health 1;19(1):359.doi: 10.1186/s12889- 019-6690-8.
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