Co-Director of Research and Quality Improvement
Dr. Foster Osei Baah is a cardiovascular nurse scientist with a program of research focused on the social determinants of cardiovascular health behavior, cardiometabolic disease risk, and health disparities.
Dr. Foster Osei Baah is a cardiovascular nurse scientist with a program of research focused on the social determinants of cardiovascular health behavior, cardiometabolic disease risk, and health disparities. The overarching goal of his program of research is to inform, design, and test interventions that reduce health disparities. Dr. Osei Baah taught junior high school math and science in Ghana. Over the past 10 years, he has continued to teach, mentor and precept nursing students and nurse professionals both in the traditional or virtual classroom and in hospital settings.
Dr. Osei Baah is currently a Marshall W. Nirenberg Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institute of Health (NIH). He received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Emory University, and an MS-PhD in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Honor Society of Nurses.
