Vincent Kuuire

Vincent Kuuire, PhD, MA is the Director of the Center for Global Health and a faculty member in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on urban health equity, transnationalism in immigrant integration, healthcare access disparities in Ghana, food security strategies, and the development-health nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Education: BA (2006, University of Ghana), MA (2011, Western University), PhD (2016, Western University), Postdoctoral Fellow (2017, Queen's University).

Kuuire’s work challenges conventional methods linking neighborhoods to health by examining daily mobility’s role in environmental exposures and gendered health risks in Ghanaian urban contexts. He pioneers research on transnational housing investments by immigrants in Canada, demonstrating their impact on integration outcomes. His studies on Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme reveal persistent disparities in access for the elderly and poor, despite premium exemptions. Additionally, he documents food remittances as critical coping mechanisms in Northern Ghana and evaluates maternal health progress under the Millennium Development Goals across Africa.

Recent publications highlight trends in public health, health geography, and migration studies, emphasizing gendered disparities, policy critiques, and transnational connections. Kuuire’s interdisciplinary approach bridges political ecology, urban studies, and global health.