Brittany-Diana Wiafe
Brittany-Diana Wiafe graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in Health Policy and Management and minors in African Studies as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. She will obtain a Master’s in Public Health to inform her career goal of strengthening health systems to support women’s health. Overall, she aims for her work to address Sub-Saharan African health systems, but is also passionate about addressing the health inequalities that exist in the U.S. health care system. She is currently working as an Associate in Client Services at Phreesia.
Wiafe worked on two SUMR research projects. With Dr. Therese Richmond, PhD, RN, FAAN she worked on the COTI research project, which studied the inequalities in pain treatment that African Americans and Latinos receive. She performed in-hospital interviews with research participants, reviewed medical records, and conducted library research with the goal of contributing to the elimination of racial and ethnic pain disparities. In addition, she worked with Dr. Harold Schmidt, PhD studying the ethics of monitoring medication adherence among HIV-positive pregnant women. She conducted structured desk-based literature, policy, and news reviews on this topic to contribute to an aggregate review of research projects monitoring medication adherence in this population.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wiafe was the Co-President of the Organization for African Students’ Interests in Solidarity. She also served as a mentor to youth in the Chapel Hill community and volunteered with the Orange County Literacy Center to aid African immigrants with English acquisition skills. She was a dancer with UNC’s African Dance Troupe, Zankiliwa. In addition, she enjoys listening to music (particularly Neo-Soul and Afrobeats), reading, and spending time with her loved ones.