The Expert is a social anthropologist with special interest on Anthropology and ethnography in Africa.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Witchcraft, disability, mental health, forced marriage, human trafficking, breast flattening, access to health care, cult practices, conflict, cultural taboos, risk of stigmatization and discrimination, HIV/AIDS & STDs
The Expert has produced a number of expert reports on access to health care, Female Genital Mutilation, disability, mental health, STDs and access to treatment. Expert has also conducted research on youth culture and sexual risk behaviors, disease spread, ethnomedicine, and burial rites
Ngade, Ivo. 2021. What a “Safe and Dignified” Burial Means During a Pandemic. Anthropology Magazine (SAPIENS), https://www.sapiens.org/culture/body-snatching-covid-19/
Ngade, Ivo, Singer, Merrill, Marcus, Olivia, Hasemann Lara, Jose E. 2016. Washing away Ebola: environmental stress, rumor, and ethnomedical response in a deadly epidemic, in A companion to the anthropology of environmental health. Wiley
Ngade, Ivo, Merrill, Singer, Olivia, Marcus and Jose, Hasemann. 2017. Implications of changing attitudes towards game meat consumption at the time of Ebola in Limbe, Cameroon. Human Organization Journal, 76(1). p.48-58
Ngade, Ivo. 2020. Ethnomedicinal Practices and Behavioral Changes During Deadly Disease Outbreaks: A Commentary and Lesson from Cameroon. Somatosphere