Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Health Communication, Emerging Health Innovations, Community-based Health Interventions and Implementation with a focus on Health, Medication, and Climate Change Literacy.

Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey is a Ph.D. student in Health Communication whose research focuses on the intersection of digital pharmaco-communication, health literacy, medical affairs, and emerging health innovations. Guided by a patient-centred perspective, she examines how individuals engage with digital therapeutics, AI-driven health tools, and social media platforms in the management of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Naessiamba's work seeks to strengthen pharmacist-patient communication and medical affairs practice by identifying strategies that improve medication comprehension, adherence, safety, and evidence-based use in real-world contexts. She holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Ghana and a master’s degree in communication from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has also earned a Global Health Certificate from McGill University, Canada.

Naessiamba brings a multidisciplinary, practice-informed perspective to her scholarship, grounded in over 5 years of professional experience in Ghana’s pharmaceutical sector, including managerial roles and service as a superintendent pharmacist in both retail and wholesale pharmacy settings.

At George Mason University, Naessiamba serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, teaching foundational courses such as Foundations of Health Communication and Fundamentals of Communication. She has taught over 13 communication classes, actively participated in student organizations, served as the Immediate Past Director of Communications for the Graduate and Professional Students Association (GAPSA) at George Mason University, and contributed to ongoing research as a research assistant.

Naessiamba’s overarching goal is to leverage communication as a strategic bridge between clinical evidence, medical affairs practice, and patient understanding, to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes among populations facing compounded barriers of literacy, access, and trust.

Selected Publications

Eab-Aggrey, N., & Khan, S. (2024). Prospects and challenges of online pharmacy in post-Covid world: a qualitative study of pharmacists' experiences in Ghana. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 13, 100395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2023.100395

Khan S, & Eab-Aggrey, N. (2025). A double-edged sword?: Digitalization, health disparities, and the paradoxical case of e-pharmacy in Ghana. Digital Health. 2025;11. doi:10.1177/20552076251326224

Courses Taught

COMM 304-DL1 Foundations of Health Communication

COMM 101-Fundamentals of communication, 2023/2024- 2024/2025

COM 3083: Language and Communication Theory

Education

George Mason University, Ph.D. Health Communication, in progress

University of Texas at San Antonio, Master's in Communication, 2020-2022