Center for
Global Health

Associate Scholar

Languages: English (advanced), Twi (advanced)

Bio statement

Having grown up in Ghana, I chose medicine in hopes of addressing global healthcare disparities. I have undertaken research geared toward the development of pediatric HIV vaccines to prevent vertical transmissions of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. In medical school, I served as president of the Penn Global Surgery Group and on the Global Health Student Advisory Committee. I also earned an MPH in Global Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and served as a fellow of the Global Surgery Foundation. I hope to continue working toward improving the standard of care on my home continent.

Recent global health projects

As an affiliate of the Harvard Global Orthopedics Collaborative, I was engaged in a study that characterized the risk factors for amputation and prolonged hospitalization among children who had received care from traditional bone setters in Ethiopia. Our study demonstrated that children in rural areas were at highest risk. Furthermore, our analysis revealed that children from homes with higher education levels had lower odds of these complications. Our findings will be invaluable in driving policy and shaping advocacy to protect the most vulnerable in this population.

I performed a research project with Dr. Neil Sheth which looked at systems issues affecting fracture care in Northern Tanzania. This prospective study included all patients presenting to the orthopedic service at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center over 6 weeks and evaluated the quality of care they received. Our analysis revealed that most of the patients received inadequate care due to unavailable implants, unavailability of intraoperative fluoroscopic evaluation, and inadequate intraoperative evaluation

Selected publications

Papa Kwadwo Morgan-Asiedu et al. Systems issues limiting acute fracture care delivery at a tertiary care hospital in Northern Tanzania. Pan African Medical Journal. 2024;48:29. [doi: 10.11604/pamj.2024.48.29.41286]

Berendam SJ*, Morgan-Asiedu PK*, Mangan RJ, Li SH, Heimsath H, Luo K, Curtis, A, Eudailey JA, Fox CB, Tomai MA, Phillips B, Itell HJ, Kunz E, Hudgens M, Cronin K, Wiehe K, Alam SM, Van-Rompay K, DeParis K, Permar SR, Moody MA, Fouda GG. Different adjuvanted pediatric HIV envelope vaccines induced distinct plasma antibody responses despite similar B cell receptor repertoires in infant rhesus macaques. PLoS ONE 2021 Dec 31; 16(12): e0256885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256885

Berendam SJ, Styles TM, Morgan-Asiedu PK, Tenney D, Kumar A, Obregon-Perko V, Bar KJ, Saunders KO, Santra S, De Paris K, Tomaras GD, Chahroudi A, Permar SR, Amara RR, Fouda GG. Systematic Assessment of Antiviral Potency, Breadth, and Synergy of Triple Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Combinations against Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Viruses. J Virol. 2021 Jan 13;95(3):e01667-20. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01667-20. PMID: 33177194; PMCID: PMC7925105.

Martinez DR, Tu JJ, Kumar A, Mangold JF, Mangan RJ, Goswami R, Giorgi EE, Chen J, Mengual M, Douglas AO, Heimsath H, Saunders KO, Nicely NI, Eudailey J, Hernandez G, Morgan-Asiedu PK, Wiehe K, Haynes BF, Moody MA, LaBranche C, Montefiori DC, Gao F, Permar SR. Maternal Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Can Select for Neutralization-Resistant, Infant-Transmitted/Founder HIV Variants. mBio. 2020 Mar 10;11(2):e00176-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00176-20. PMID: 32156815; PMCID: PMC7064758.

Last Updated: 29 July 2024