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Pascale Allotey

Principal Visiting Fellow

Education
PhD, Public Health, University of Western Australia
Education
MMedSci, Community Health, University of Western Australia
Institute
UNU-IIGH
Nationality
Ghana
Contacts
unu.iigh.director@unu.edu

Professor Pascale Allotey is Principal Visiting Fellow and former Director at UNU-IIGH. Pascale has three decades of experience as a researcher in global health including multidisciplinary background, and experience working across four continents to promote health and well-being.

Prof. Allotey served as Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of School (Research and Development) at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University (Malaysia). She also was head of the Global Public Health unit and founding Associate Director of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO, Malaysia).

Her previous experience includes Professor of Race, Diversity and Professional Practice, Brunel University (United Kingdom); Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Key Centre for Women’s Health, WHO Collaborating Centre for Women’s Health, University of Melbourne (Australia); and Lecturer in the Tropical Health Program, Australian Centre for International and Tropic Disease and Nutrition, University of Queensland (Australia).

Prof Allotey has a multidisciplinary background in clinical health sciences, anthropology, and epidemiology. Her research has focused on health equity, health and human rights, gender and social determinants of health, forced migration and marginalisation, sexual and reproductive health, infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases.

She is also a technical advisor on several WHO committees in Geneva, including serving as co-Chair of the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel; a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Universal Health Coverage for the WHO Western Pacific Region office in Manila; and associate editor for several public health and global health journals.

She holds a PhD in Public Health and a MMedSci degree in Community Health from the University of Western Australia.

Publications

Article

The US Abortion Decision is Already Having Global Impacts

The US Supreme Court’s decision ignores public health and the plethora of data that demonstrates the harms caused by these sorts of restrictions.

06 Sep 2022

Article

Equal Rights — Unless You Are Pregnant

Delving into pregnancy discrimination, UNU-IIGH examines challenges and calls for equity.

25 May 2022

Journal Article

A call to action to reform academic global health partnerships

Global health is hindered by inequities between high-income and lower-income countries, impacting resource access and development.

01 Nov 2021

Journal Article

Undoing supremacy in global health will require more than decolonisation

Decolonizing global health requires addressing power imbalances, respecting diverse values, and confronting internal inequities within countries.

20 Mar 2021

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