This $708,237 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), will fund a study titled "Dynamics of Ghanaian Immigrants' Health in the US: Critical Life-Stage Experiences, Social Networks, Acculturation and Selection (GMHES)." The project aims to:
- Recruit linked binational samples of Ghanaians in Ghana and Ghanaian immigrants in the U.S. using multiple sampling approaches.
- Follow the migrants over time to analyze their physical and mental health, and how it compares to native-born Black Americans and Ghanaians in Ghana.
- Examine how critical life-stage experiences, social networks, acculturation, and selection processes shape the health outcomes of Ghanaian immigrants in the U.S.
The University of Pennsylvania and University of Ghana are sub-awardees, supporting research activities such as study design, survey implementation, data management, and analysis. This innovative project promises to significantly advance understanding of migration and health trends within the rapidly growing Ghanaian immigrant population in the U.S.
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