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University of Ghana
Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie
- 2024
- Participant
- Social Sciences & Humanities
Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie is an Early Career Researcher and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. In 2020, Nii earned his PhD in Psychological Sciences from the University of Leeds. He is a Community and Applied Health Psychologist by training. Nii’s research focuses on understanding and promoting adolescent mental health in low- and middle-income countries. He is passionate about developing community-based and in-school adolescent mental health interventions, mainly, within sub-Saharan Africa. He has keen interests in the application of multi-ecological frameworks and interdisciplinary models to understand adolescent self-harm and suicide.
Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie is a 2024 Falling Walls Winner in the Social Sciences and Humanities category