Eugenia Agyemang, from Ghana, is completing a doctorate degree in audiology at Ball State University. She will use her education to address hearing and balance problems faced by women and children in low-resource settings and to promote preventative healthcare in the realm of audiology for newborns, children, and adults in Ghana.
Eugenia is an active member of the East Central Indiana Area Health Education Center. As such, Eugenia serves the community by volunteering and providing information on blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, and general nutrition education. She has also assisted her university’s Department of Speech and Audiology in orienting potential students and families interested in the health programs on offer. Through her work we see a commitment to the health and well-being of women and children in her community.
In the future, Eugenia strives to empower women and children in Ghana by establishing a newborn hearing screening program to identify children with hearing loss, as well as providing an appropriate intervention for these children. The goal is to provide hearing solutions for children and adults in Ghana. To accomplish this, she will complete her training to become a pediatric audiologist and share her skills in a teaching capacity to address the lack of auditory health education, along with working to promote policy change within the health department of Ghana. Eugenia’s work seeks to advocate for the most vulnerable in the community, a worthy and admirable pursuit.
