Sandra Darfour-Oduro, assistant professor of public health studies, presented her research titled "Predictors of birth outcome at a Teaching Hospital in Ghana", at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference held in Atlanta.
On Feb. 21, Sandra Darfour-Oduro attended the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference brings together researchers with interest in Global Health.
Darfour-Oduro teaches the Global Health class in the Department of Public Health Studies. She presented her research on the predictors of birth outcomes at a teaching hospital in Ghana. Ghana, like other low-and-middle income countries, records a considerably higher number of deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
Darfour-Oduro and her co-authors conducted a retrospective cohort study and used logistic regression models to determine the predictors of birth outcome.