Ifeolu David

• Assistant Professor/Post doctoral fellow at University of Michigan

Background: Sierra Leone’s health system has faced significant challenges, including the long-term impacts of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, prolonged conflicts before that, and economic factors contributing to the fragility of healthcare systems in many low-income settings. This qualitative study explores COVID-19 prevention practices among healthcare w...

Background: Community leadership programs (CLPs) play a crucial role in cultivating local leadership that is instrumental in driving substantial changes within communities. Objective: Using an organizational commitment framework, this study evaluates the impact of two Midwestern CLPs cultivating community commitment and facilitating the application...

Covid-19 created unprecedented disruptions on human migration. Business closures and travel bans disproportionately impacted economic migrants who were neither able to support their families nor travel to their home countries. The primary aim of the study was to explore the experiences of Malawian migrants who returned from South Africa during Covi...

This qualitative study explored the psychosocial stressors experienced by African international students in the USA, an understudied and underrepresented minority group, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed by human rights and capability approaches, the study raises awareness about the intersecting stressors caused by the pandemic and the lack of...

This qualitative study explores the perceptions and experiences of college students, faculty, and administrators on mental well-being pre-and-post COVID-19 pandemic. The study used an exploratory sequential design, and this manuscript presented findings from the qualitative (phase one) data collected through in-depth interviews with students, facul...

The global health crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the necessity of swift vaccine development and distribution to curb virus transmission. However, discussions on vaccine acceptance and hesitancy have predominantly focused on pre-vaccination attitudes, often overlooking the significance of post-vaccination experiences in sha...

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound effect on health workers; one of the most affected occupational groups. In Sierra Leone, health workers were already scarred by the 2014 Ebola outbreak that claimed many lives; this study aimed to explore the experiences of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular attention to this context. I...

Using a social-ecological model (SEM), this qualitative study explored the facilitators of access to primary health care (PHC) among Ethiopian immigrant women in the U.S. Data were collected through in-depth interviews ( N =21, ≥18 years) and analyzed thematically using Nvivo12. At the individual level, stable employment, insurance, immigration sta...

Migration to South Africa is motivated by the pursuit of employment, safety, and improved living conditions. However, immigrants encounter significant challenges, such as restricted access to essential services, which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Malawian immigrants in Sou...

Introduction College students routinely visit their families due to geographic proximity and their financial dependence. Consequently, the potential of transmitting COVID-19 from campus to their families’ homes is consequential. Family members are key sources of support for one another in nearly all matters but there is little research uncovering t...

The widespread availability of health information and treatment for HIV in Southern Africa does not reach all populations. Few programs and materials are developed with middle-aged and older rural individuals living with HIV as the target audience, despite this being a growing population. This vacuum inevitably exacerbates the disjuncture between c...

Canada and the USA are often compared for their markedly different approaches to health care despite cultural similarities and sharing the world’s longest international boundary. The period between the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020 and the availability of a vaccine in December 2020 offers an ideal opportunity to compare subnational...

Research suggests that substance use, particularly among adolescents may lead to increased illegal activities as well as physical and social health consequences. Around the world, communities, overburdened with adolescent and youth substance use, are finding ways to address this public health threat. Using a case study based on a focus group discus...

The COVID-19 pandemic not only had detrimental effects on physical health but also had adverse effects on college students’ mental health. This paper begins to fill a gap in knowledge related to the contextual factors that impacted college students’ mental health during COVID. Using in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 33 college students a...

While COVID-19 affected all segments of the population, vulnerable social groups, including international students, were disproportionately affected. The primary objective of this study was to explore COVID-19-related experiences of African international graduate students (AIGS). Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 A...

Background The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the diseases it causes remain a public health threat. Data describing health education campaigns for COVID-19 on university and college campuses are lacking, however. Purpose This study explored college students’ experiences of a USA campus COVID-19 campaign encouragin...

COVID-19 pandemic has harshly impacted university students since the outbreak was declared in March 2020. A population impacted the most was international college students due to limited social networks, restrictive employment opportunities, and travel limitations. Despite the increased vulnerability, there has been limited research on the experien...

During disasters, vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected. COVID-19 disproportionately affected African American (AA) families, increasing their risk for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. The pandemic also exacerbated existing negative milieu such as economic opportunity and access to social and healthcare services. We explored AA fa...

Objective We describe our Fall 2020 study of college students’ COVID-19 related behaviors, attitudes, and antibody test results. Participants The study included 1,446 randomly selected and self-enrolled undergraduate and graduate students from a midwestern university. Methods An online survey was distributed to a sample of students, between Septe...

Objective As HIV shifts from “death sentence” to “chronic condition,” disclosure of HIV status to intimate partners and family is a significant component of both prevention and treatment adherence. While disclosure is closely considered in many studies, few examine middle-aged and older persons’ (age 40+) perspectives or practices. We trace older r...