The Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, both at the University of Ghana. She holds a PhD and an MPhil in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Deborah won the Rockefeller Residency Award at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in 2012 and the Duke University Provost Travel Award in 2013. In 2015, she became a fellow of the prestigious Takemi Program in International Health of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She is also a Catalyst Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. She contributed a chapter on Ghana to Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World, commissioned by UN Women. She is the treasurer of the African Studies Association of Africa.