Dr. Ngozi Victoria Enelamah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the College of Health and Human Services, University of New Hampshire. Her interdisciplinary research and scholarship adopt culturally grounded approaches to address global mental health disparities among immigrant and refugee children, youth, and families. Her interventions use biopsychosocial frameworks and adopt an implementation science approach toward promoting and integrating behavioral health into allied services. Dr. Enelamah has over two decades of macro practice, community, and public health experience that has helped to address and strengthen health and education systems. Before becoming a faculty member at UNH, Dr. Enelamah's work in the non-profit sector focused on strengthening maternal, child, and adolescent health and health systems.
Courses Taught
- SW 551: Human Behavior&Soc Envirnmt II
- SW 840: Race, Culture and Oppression
- SW 860: Research Methods in Soc Work
- SW 926: Social Welfare Policy II
- SW 965: Program & Practice Evaluation
Research Interests
- Refugee/Immigrant Services
- Early Childhood Development
- Child/Maternal Health
- Emotional/Mental Health--Child/Adolescent
- Health Disparities
Selected Publications
Villodas, M. L., Foell, A., Smith, L. C., Yu, M., McCoy, H., Yang, Y., . . . Nebbitt, V. (n.d.). Psychometric Properties of the Modified Parenting Attitudes Measure Among African American Adolescents in Public Housing. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi:10.1007/s10826-024-02871-6
Enelamah, N. V., Lombe, M., Betancourt, T. S., Shen, C., & Williams, D. R. (2024). Maternal Subjective Wellbeing and the Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes of 3- to 4-Year-Old Children in Nigeria. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33(5), 1544-1558. doi:10.1007/s10826-023-02763-1
Enelamah, N. V., Rao, S., Lombe, M., Yu, M., Newransky, C., Villodas, M. L., . . . Nebbitt, V. (2024). Examining the Utility of the Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) among Children in the Nigeria Context.. Children (Basel), 11(3). doi:10.3390/children11030361
Rao, S., & Enelamah, N. V. (2024). Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States. World Development, 173, 106443. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106443
Lombe, M., Newransky, C., Nebbitt, V., Amano, T., Yu, M., Enelamah, N. V., . . . Walden, N. (2023). Individual, familial, and sociocontextual correlates of maternal caregiving among African American adolescents in public housing. Family Relations, 72(5), 2390-2409. doi:10.1111/fare.12870
Foell, A., Amano, T., Newransky, C., Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., Yu, M., . . . Tirmazi, M. T. (2023). Stress Biomarkers in Black Youth: Exploring Psychological, Behavioral, and Socio-Ecological Correlates.. J Urban Health, 100(5), 892-903. doi:10.1007/s11524-023-00776-1
McMahan, L. D., Lombe, M., Evans, C. B. R., Enelamah, N. V., Chu, Y., Simms, S., . . . Wideman, L. (2022). Getting to zero HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding perceptions of locals using the social determinants of health framework. HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, 30(3), E739-E748. doi:10.1111/hsc.13444
Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., Pitzer, K. A., Foell, A., Enelamah, N., Chu, Y., . . . Gaylord-Harden, N. (2021). Exposure to Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Among Youth in Public Housing: Do Community, Family, and Peers Matter?. JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES, 8(1), 264-274. doi:10.1007/s40615-020-00780-0
Enelamah, N. V., & Tran, T. (2020). Dimensions of altruism behaviors among Americans in the general social survey. JOURNAL OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, 30(2), 213-227. doi:10.1080/10911359.2019.1673274
Lombe, M., Mabikke, H., Enelamah, N. V., & Chu, Y. (2019). Conceptualizing the African child as orphan and vulnerable: A label in need of redefinition?. INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK, 62(1), 62-75. doi:10.1177/0020872817710546
