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Bio

Dzifa Dordunoo PhD, RN, a native of Dzodze, Ghana, has spent the past 15 years as a nurse educator before transferring to the department of Anthropology. Having began her teaching career in 2011 as a clinical instructor at John Hopkins School of Nursing, she later taught at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing before joining the UVic School of Nursing in 2017 – 2025 (April). Dzifa taught a variety of nursing courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, particularly courses in cardiac surgical nursing, quantitative and qualitative analysis and research methodology. She has over 20 years of varied clinical practice experience working in general medicine and coronary care units as well as outpatient clinics (Heart failure and Sickle Cell). Within the department of anthropology, she teaches global health and courses that explore health anthropology with focus on the bio-cultural factors that drives patient outcomes.

As a scholar and researcher, she has a strong research interest in improving access and quality of health services. Her program of research leverages dissemination and implementation science with patient-centered lens to address factors that influence quality and safety of care and outcomes, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Dzifa worked on several investigator-initiated studies and phase III/IV FDA clinical trials with implantable devices. Her recent projects have focused on metal hypersensitivity and racism as predictors of health outcomes. Her interest in metal hypersensitivity grew after she was involved in a clinical case of a . She completed several projects that demonstrated a  and that . She has also completed several projects on racism, highlighting the misrepresentation of race in health research and urging the need to shift the focus on 

Dr Dordunoo earned her bachelor's degree (with distinction) from Â鶹¾«Æ· (Canada) and holds a master’s degree from Duke University (USA) with post-master's certificate in clinical research management and teaching. She completed her doctoral education at the University of Maryland Baltimore (USA). She serves on the board of several organizations including the Sickle Cell Disease Association of Canada.

Email dzifa@uvic.ca for more information about her research program. 

Interests

• Quality & Safety
• Inpatient nursing care processes
• Cardiovascular disease (heart failure)
• Sickle cell disease
• Dissemination & Implementation science
• Quality improvement
• Global health nursing
• Critical are
• Health information technology

Courses

• ANTH 302 - Globalization, Health, and the Environment
• ANTH 394 - Selected problems biological Anthropology: Exploring diversity in healthcare