Harriet Ayiku
Contact Information
Research and Creative Interests
- Cultural Studies
- Health Communication
- Gender and reproductive health discourse
- Global health governance
- Media Framing
- Donor human milk banking
Biography
Harriet Ayiku is a PhD candidate in Health Communication at The Media School, Indiana University Bloomington. Her research examines health communication in African and diaspora contexts, including donor human milk banking, gender and reproductive health discourse, global health governance, and media framing. She is interested in using health communication approaches to advocate for policy changes that advance health equity for marginalized groups such as racial/ethnic minorities and immigrants in the United States and Ghana. She aims to identify communication and messaging strategies that effectively highlight health disparities, counter misconceptions, and build public and political will for reform.
Harriet has a Master of Business Administration (2014) and a Bachelor of Arts in English (2009) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. She also completed her Master of Philosophy studies in Business Communication at the University of Education in Winneba, Ghana, in 2021.
Some Publication(s)
Obeng, C. S., Jackson, F., Ayiku, H., Salem, S., Gonzalez Casanova, I., Perry, C. A., & Byrd, K. A. (2026). Immigrant Fathers’ Perceptions of Human Milk Banks and Pasteurized Donor Human Milk in the United States: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Human Lactation, 08903344261461896 l of Human Lactation.
https://doi.org/10.1177/08903344261461896