Professor Randolph Key of Wesleyan University in Ohio, pictured in Slocum Hall, has been selected as a 2023-2024 US Fulbright Scholar.
Randolph Que, professor and co-chair of the Department of Africana, Gender, and Identity at Ohio Wesleyan University, will be making his third visit to Tanzania, East Africa, to conduct health care studies during the 2023-2024 academic year. received the Fulbright Scholarship Award. .
“The aim is to investigate the importance of home care in providing antiretroviral drugs (ART) to people living with HIV in Tanzania,” said the highly competitive Fulbright Scholarships in 2011 and 2017. said Dr. Quaye, who won the gold.
“Research on ART self-management of HIV in Africa has tended to focus exclusively on treatment adherence,” says Quaye, a member of Ohio Wesleyan University since 2004. The choices they offered influenced self-management by users of health care services. ”
To expand services to HIV patients in Tanzania, a new Fulbright-funded Quaye study found that infected individuals, especially those who regularly visit ART clinics, were more willing to take antiretroviral medications at home. I will investigate whether to receive it.
“The golden thread running through my work is my focus on policy initiatives that can improve the health status of vulnerable populations,” said Kue, a trained medical sociologist. “In an increasingly interdependent world, cross-border experience with alternative healthcare delivery options provides a rich field for analysis.”
During a year in East Africa, Quye contributed to a master’s degree in public health program at the University of Dar es Salaam, focusing on global health, lifelong health care disparities, health systems, and health policy within the broader subject of sociology. teach a course on about health and illness.
At Ohio Wesleyan University, he is also the OWU Director of the Tanzanian Semester Abroad Program and has experience in directing international programs in Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He is the author of books such as Recent Reforms in the Swedish Health Care System: Implications for the Swedish Welfare State and African American Health Care Practices, Perspectives and Needs.
Quaye holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Ghana, a Master’s degree from Acadia University (Canada), and a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Boston.
For more information on Quaye and Ohio Wesleyan’s Africana, Gender, and Identity Studies Division, see www.owu.edu/AGIS. For more information on his OWU at University Tanzania program, please visit: www.owu.edu/Tanzania.
About the Fulbright Program
Since its establishment by Congress in 1946, the Fulbright Program has engaged more than 400,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists and scientists in research, teaching, conducting research, exchanging ideas and addressing shared global issues. It has given us the opportunity to contribute to the discovery of solutions. According to the program, its 400,000 alumni include 62 Nobel Prize winners, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 78 MacArthur and his Fellows, and thousands across academia and the private, public and nonprofit sectors. leaders and world-renowned experts.Click here for details https://eca.state.gov/fulbright.
Submitted by Ohio Wesleyan University.
