Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins

Ama de-Graft Aikins is a professor of social psychology at the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana and a professorial research fellow at the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research focuses on chronic illness experiences and care, and on developing interdisciplinary models to address Africa’s chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) burden. She also has a strong interest in arts and health, and how arts-based methods strengthen participatory community health development. In addition to her co-investigator role on the M-CARE Project, Professor de-Graft Aikins is principal investigator for the British Academy seed-funded Chronicity and Care in African Contexts Project. The project examines how social and creative responses to chronic conditions can inform public engagement and chronic care interventions in continental and diaspora African settings.

Her book, Selling Healing: Creative Arts and Health Communication in Ghana, published by Cambridge University Press in November 2025, is a major output of this project.

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