Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah

Faculty Biography

Sr. Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah, PhD, is an educator, researcher, and a clinical psychologist.  She is also a Perpetually Professed member of the Institute of the Daughters of the Most Holy Trinity (FST), a Catholic Women Religious Institute of Diocesan Right.  Primarily trained in Canada and the United States of America, she has close to two decades of experience as a licensed clinical psychologist and lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).  Her research interests include psychological and subjective wellbeing, disability, and indigenous knowledge systems in the area of psychotheraphy for the promotion of adult and adolescent mental health. Sr. Frances Emily has good leadership and administrative experiences having served for over a decade in the Leadership of the FST Sisters and in various administrative positions at the KNUST.  She is presently the Head of Department for Behavioural Sciences in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST. Her personal strengths include dedication to duty, team-building, and a passion for teaching and formatiion of students.