Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Digital Health, Social and Behavioral Change interventions, Health and Climate Change Literacy, Health Disparities

Naessiamba Eab-Aggrey is a Ph.D. student specializing in Health Communication, with research interests at the intersection of digital health, social and behavioral change interventions, health and climate change literacy, and health disparities. Her work examines how healthcare professionals and their clients engage with emerging health innovations, AI-enabled health tools, and online health platforms, with a focus on improving communication, understanding, and decision-making across communicable and non-communicable disease contexts.

Grounded in a patient-centered perspective, Naessiamba’s research explores strategies that strengthen provider-patient communication and support patient education, medication comprehension, adherence, safety, and evidence-based use in real-world settings. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Ghana, a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and 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, where she teaches foundational courses such as Foundations of Health Communication and Fundamentals of Communication. She is also actively involved in student organizations, previously served as Director of Communications for the Graduate and Professional Students Association (GAPSA) at George Mason University, and has 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 in order to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes among populations facing compounded barriers of literacy, access, and trust.

Selected Publications

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

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

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