Godfred O. Boateng, PhD

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Arlington

Dr Godfred Boateng is an Assistant Professor of Public Health, Director of the Global and Environmental Health Lab, and an Affiliate Faculty at the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Dr. Boateng is an expert in the design and application of culturally relevant scalable methodologies to study the multidimensional factors and processes that shape health and health equity across spatial scales (household, community, institutional, national), and how they can be promoted and sustained. His research program is transdisciplinary and focuses on resource insecurity, health, and sustainable livelihoods; the socio-ecological determinants of cardiometabolic conditions in aging adults; social inequity in health systems; quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development; and COVID-19 related health effects. Dr. Boateng’s research in these areas have been critical in transforming the understanding of the key social and structural determinants of health and health inequity among vulnerable populations, including women, infants, children, and older adults.

Poster(s):

• (PO04-07-22) A Novel Measure of Housing Insecurity, Poverty and Use of Unclean Cooking Fuel Are Associated With Greater Food Insecurity in Slums and Informal Settlements

• (PO04-08-22) Household Food Insecurity Negatively Affects Multiple Facets of Well-Being for Those Living in Slums and Informal Settlements