Vivian Afrah Puplampu, RN, PhD
Contact Info
Areas of Interest
Older adults’ aging in place, quality of life, social connection, social capital, and housing. Racialized older adults including Black older adults’ social connection and aging in place.
Nursing education focusing on context-based learning approach, Black nursing students and faculty members experiences in academia.
About
Dr. Vivian Puplampu is an Associate Professor in the University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing and a registered nurse. She has been a nurse educator for over two decades starting from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana. She joined the Faculty of Nursing, University of Regina in 2016. She is a Certified Gerontological Nurse and conducts research on older adults, nursing education, and has successfully secured internal seed and external grants such as SSHRC and CIHR grants to conduct research on older adult populations. Dr. Puplampu has published on diverse topics in nursing education and on older adults’ social engagement, quality of life, and aging in place in both national and international peer-reviewed journals. She has methodological expertise in qualitative research, mixed-methods design, older adults’ quality of life, and student-centered learning. She serves on diverse communities in the Faculty of Nursing, at the university level, and the community at large.
Current Teaching
CNUR100: Practice Education: Community Partnerships
CNUR 102 : Foundations of Care: A Developing Professional I theory and lab
CNUR 107 : Introduction to Health Assessment (1) Theory and lab
CNUR 209: Research Methods for Behavioural and Health Sciences
CNUR 402: Health Promotion with Older Adults and Rural & Remote Populations
MNUR 809: Transition to Advanced Nursing Practice (1) ( Graduate class)
Recent Grants, Awards & Scholarships
Peer Reviewed Grants and Awards
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Luhanga, F.L., Sebaeng, J., Eliason, C. Older Adults’ Experience of Vulnerability and Inequality in Recovering from the Pandemic($6, 000)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding source: University of Regina President’s Research Seed Grant
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Luhanga, F.L., Sebaeng, J., Eliason, C. Older Adults’ Perception of Vulnerability and Inequality in Recovering from the Pandemic ($5000).
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding source: University of Regina Humanities Research Institute
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Oba, F. White, J. Weeks, L., & Pierson, J. Social Hub Club for Older Adults of People of African Descents and Friends ($25, 000). Government of Canada.
New Horizons for Seniors Program.
Luhanga, F. L. (PI), Stonebanks, C. D., Oba, F., Salami, O.O., Maposa, S., Puplampu, V. A. Revealing Black undergraduate nursing students’ experiences in Saskatchewan (114,376).
Role: Co-investigator
Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Falihi, A., Moasun, F. Y., Luhanga, F. L., Salma, J., Osuji, J. C., Mvumbi Mambu, L., Bushi, O. J., Salami, O. O., Linnick, D., Paine, L., Nsaliwa, S. Partnership to strengthen older racialized immigrants’ social connectedness in Canda: the impacts of the living environment (199,098).
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant.
Non-Peer Reviewed Grants and Awards
Atulaegwu, W. (PI) & Puplampu, V. A. (Co-PI). Exploring the Challenges Faced by Nursing Students Associations in Saskatchewan Universities- A Pilot Study ($2500)
Role: Co-PI
Funding source: University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing
Recent Research Funding
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Luhanga, F.L., Sebaeng, J., Modula, J., Eliason, C. , Dovie, D. A., Nathoo, S., Alexis, O., & Cooke, J. (2024). Planning and Disseminating Project Findings to Enhance Older Adults Aging-in-Place.
Funding source: Canadian Institute of Health Research [CIHR] Institute of Aging grant ($25 000).
Role: PI
Publications
Refereed Articles, Papers, Books or Chapters
Anim-Larbi, M., Puplampu, V., Maposa, S., & Mahani, A. (2025). A scoping review protocol on childhood immunization reminder strategies available to parents in Canada and the United States of America. PLoS One 20(5), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323186
Puplampu, V. A., Pierson, J., Oba, F., Weeks, L., Gawdun, J., & White, J. (2024). Older Black adults’ social capital during COVID-19 and its impact on mental wellbeing. Perspectives Journal , 45(1), 29-
Puplampu, V.A., Luhanga, F.L., & Baffour-Awuah, A. (2023). The experience of Black Faculty members in academia. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 55(2), 51-71. https://doi.org/ 10.1353/ces.2023.a902151
Puplampu, V. A., Silversides, H. P., & Phillips, K. (2023). A scoping review on older adults from Africa social connecteness experiences in North America. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 38( 2 ), 115-135.
Luhanga, F.L., Maposa, S., Puplampu, V. A., & Abudu, E. (2023). “Let’s call a spade a spade: My barrier is being a Black student”: Challenges for Black undergraduate nursing students in a Western Canadian province. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 55(4), 457-471. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/08445621231198632
Luhanga, F.L., Maposa, S., Puplampu, V. A., Abudu, E., & Chigbogu, I. (2023). You have to strive very hard to prove yourself : experiences of Black nursing students in a western Canadian province. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship,20(1), . https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2022-0094.
Bigonnesse, C., Weeks, L., Puplampu, V., Paris, M., Dupuis-Blanchard, S., Mcinnis-Perry, G., & Hache-Chiasson, A. (2022). Influence of cohousing communities on social determinants of health in later life: A scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-22-00068 (appendix R31)
Pierson, J., Puplampu, V. A., & White, J. (2022). The history of Black people in Canada and the intersection of policies on their settlement. Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, 54(2), 47-65. https://doi-org.libproxy.uregina.ca/10.1353/ces.2022.0015.
Puplampu, V.A., Baffour-Awuah, A., Benson, P.M., & Adams, L. (2022). The impact of older
adults’ living environment on their healthy aging in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PERSPECTIVE, Journal of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association, 43(1), 17-27.
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Weeks, L.E., Bigonnesse, C., Rupasinghe, V., Hache-Chiasson, A, Dupuis-Blanchard, S., Harman, K., McInnis-Perry, G., Paris, M., Puplampu, V.A., & Critchlow, M (2022). The best place to be? Experiences of older adults living in Canadian cohousing communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Aging and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/26892618.2022.2106528 (appendix R34)
Baliko, K., & Puplampu, V. A. (2021). Aging in the age of COVID. Discourse Research Magazine. Winter 2021 Issues. https://www.discoursemagazine.ca/aging-in-the-age-of-covid/2021/04/01/
Matthews, E., Puplampu, V. A., & Gelech, J. (2021). Tactics and strategies of adaptation among parents caring for children with developmental disabilities. Accepted. Global Qualitative Nursing Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/23333936211028184
Luhanga, L. F., Puplampu, V. A., Arvidson, S., & Ogunade, A. (2020). Nursing students experiences of bullying in clinical practice. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 10(3), 98–97. https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v10n3p89
Puplampu, V. A., Peters, S., & Chipanshi, M. (2020). A scoping review on the impact of cohousing on older adults’ quality of life. Perspectives: The Journal of the Gerontological Nursing Association, 41(2),14–27. http://search.ebscohost.com.libproxy.uregina.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rzh&AN=147865292&site=ehost-live
Puplampu, V.A. (2020). Older adults and their caregivers’ self-management of COPD post COVID-19: A literature review. Australian Journal of Nursing Research AJNR-100011, 2020(3), 1–4. https://grfpublishers.com/article/view/Mjkw/Older-Adults-and-their-Caregivers-Self-Management-of-COPD-Post-Covid-19-A-Literature-Review
Puplampu, V. A., Matthews, E., Puplampu, G., Gross, M., Pathak, S., & Peters, S. (2020). The impact of cohousing on older adults’ quality of life. Canadian Journal on Aging, 39(3), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980819000448
Conference Presentations & Invited Academic Lectures
Anim-Larbi, M., Puplampu, V., Maposa, S., & Mahani, A. (2025). A scoping review on childhood immunization reminder strategies available to parents in North America. Abstract submitted to the 36th International Nursing Research Congress2025 in Seatle, USA. Abstract ID 4232248(appendix R37)
Eliason, C., Dovie, D., Puplampu, V., Luhanga, F., Sebaeng, J., Nathoo, S., & Cooke, J. (2025). Older Ghanaian adults’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of ageing in place. Abstract submitted to the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association (CGNA)2025. May 29-31, Winnipeg, Manitoba. conference@cgna.net (P.29)
Nathoo, S., Alexis, O., Cooke, J., Puplampu, V., Sebaeng, J., Modula, J., Eliason, C., Dovie, D., Luhanga, F., Yen Ho, A. H. (2025). Older adults’ perception of vulnerability and inequality in recovering from the pandemic in the UK. Abstract submitted to the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association (CGNA)2025. May 29-31, Winnipeg, Manitoba. conference@cgna.net (P.18)
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Nathoo, S., Alexis, O., Cooke, J., Sabeng, J., Modula, J., Eliason, C., & Dovie, D. ( October, 2024). “Transnational Partnership to Explore Older Adults Perception of Inequity in Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Abstract submitted to the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association (CGNA)2025. May 29-31, Winnipeg, Manitoba. conference@cgna.net (appendix R38)
Puplampu, V. A., White, J., Ndulue, C., Oba, F., Pierson, J., $ Weeks, L. (October 2024). “Promoting the Social Inclusion of Older Black Adults in Saskatchewan”. Abstract submitted to the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association (CGNA)2025. May 29-31, Winnipeg, Manitoba. conference@cgna.net (appendix R39)
Abudu,E., Luhanga, F., Maposa, S., & Puplampu, V. (2024). Revealing Black undergraduate nursing students’ experiences in Saskatchewan. Oral presentation at Nurse Education Today and Nurse Education in Practice (NETNEP) International Nursing Education Conference, October 29th, 2024. Singapore (appendix R40).
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Falihi, A., Moasun, F. Y., Luhanga, F. L., Salma, J., Osuji, J. C., Mvumbi Mambu, L., Bushi, O. J., Nsaliwa, C., Kazi, M., Hai Ho, A., Baffour-Awuah, A., & Salami, O. O. Racialized immigrant and refugee older adults in Canada: Unraveling precarious context, complex experiences, and resulting impacts on quality of life. Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) Conference. Abstract #37, October 25, 2024, Edmonton, Alberta (appendix R 41).
Maposa, S., Abudu, E., Puplampu, V., Luhanga, F., & Kamogelo, A. (2024). The only way I could silence the racism voices in to do better. And then, I become a voice for Black Nurses through my own success story: Cultivating the African Spirit of Ubuntu. Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing Conference. Abstract # , May 27-28, Calgary, Alberta ( appendix R42).
Luhanga, F., Abudu, E., Maposa, S., & Puplampu, V. (2024). Revealing Black undergraduate nursing students’ experiences in Saskatchewan. Oral presentation to USask College of Nursing Forum, May 23rd, 2024(appendix R 43).
Abudu, E., Luhanga, F., Maposa, S., & Puplampu, V. (2023). Experience Black students in nursing undergraduate programs in Saskatchewan, Canada. Oral presentation to the Saskatchewan Nursing Leadership Network, October 20th, 2023 (appendix R 44).
Abudu, E., Luhanga, F., Maposa, S., & Puplampu, V. (2023). Recruitment and retention of Black students in nursing undergraduate programs in Saskatchewan, Canada. Abstract presented at International Council on Nursing (ICN) 2023 Congress. Abstract # 640, July 1-5, 2023. Montreal, Quebec ((appendix R45).
Bushi, J. & Puplampu, V. (2023). Partnership on older racialized immigrants’ social connectedness: Impacts of the living environment. Abstract presented at 25th Metroplois Canada Conference. Session(H4) March 16-18, 2023. Ottawa, Ontario. https://metropolisconference.ca/en/event/25th-metropolis-canada-conference/?view=Summary (appendix R46)
Anderson,C. & Puplampu, V. A. (2022, October 25th). Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Correctional Facilities During COVID Times: Highlighting Changes, Innovations, and Opportunities for Growth. ICPA 2022 Conference in Florida, United States(appendix R47).
Bigonnesse, C., Weeks, L., Paris, M., Puplampu, V.A., Dupuis-Blanchard, S., McInnis-Perry, G., & Hache-Chiasson, A. (2022, October). Cohousing as an option for aging in place: portrait of cohousing communities in Canada. Abstract accepted for the 51th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology October 20-22, 2022 in Regina, SK. https://acgcag.ca/ (appendix R48)
Puplampu, V. A., Pierson, J., Weeks, L., Oba, F., White, J., & Gawdun, J. (2022, October ). Addressing social capital of older Black adults in Canada during COVID-19 through participatory action research [abstract accepted for paper presentation]. Canadian Association on Gerontology 2022 Conference, Regina, SK, Canada. https://acgcag.ca/(appendix R49)
Puplampu, V. A. (2022, June 3). Exploratory-descriptive qualitative research design [Virtual Oral presenation]. University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing Canadian Doctoral Nursing Network Conference. Regina, SK, Canada. https://www.uregina.ca/nursing/cdnnc/index.html (appendix R50)
Luhanga, F.L, Puplampu, V. A., Maposa, S., & Abudu, E. ( 2022, April 27). Recruitment and retention of Black students in nursing programs in Saskatchewan-Preliminary report. Virtual presentation at 2021-2022 HRI Research Showcase. University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada (appendix R51).
Matthews, E., Clune, L., Cooper, E., Gelech, J., Guitierrez-Sisneros, A., & Puplampu, V. (2022, March 23). Challenges and Innovations in Collaborative Research in the Community. 82nd Annual Meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology 2022 Hybrid Meeting Agenda (Virtual & Onsite) Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Ohio. United States. https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting/virtual-meeting-agenda (appendix R52)
Puplampu, V. A. (2021, July 20). Geriatric Nursing: Benefits, Challenges and Research [paper presentation]. University of Regina Nursing Undergraduate Research Internship Program, Regina, SK, Canada.
Puplampu, V. A., Lois, A., Benson, P., & Baffour-Awuah, A. (2021, March 26). The impacts of older adults living arrangements on their healthy aging during COVID-19 pandemic [public virtual seminar]. Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Grant Presentation.
Puplampu, V. A. (2021, April 23). Benefits and challenges of social distancing measures and resilience of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic [paper presentation]. Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association (CGNA) Virtual Conference: Harnessing the Wonder of Gerontological Nursing. Conference website: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/1594/program-app/program?
Puplampu, V. A., Silversides, H. P., & Phillips, K. (2020, October 22). An integrated review on the experiences of older adult Black African Immigrants Aging in Canada. Abstract submitted to Canadian Association of Gerontology Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic). Conference website: https://cagacg.ca/asem/cag2020/
Luhanga, F., Puplampu, V. A., & Arvidson, S. (2020, April 27). Nursing students’ experience of bullying in clinical practice [paper presentation]. 8th International Nurse Education Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic). Abstract: http://conferences.elsevier.com/NURS2020?email=florence.luhanga@uregina.ca&abstracts=0819
Current Research
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Luhanga, F.L., Sebaeng, J., Eliason, C. Older Adults’ Experience of Vulnerability and Inequality in Recovering from the Pandemic($6, 000)
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding source: University of Regina President’s Research Seed Grant
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Luhanga, F.L., Sebaeng, J., Eliason, C. Older Adults’ Perception of Vulnerability and Inequality in Recovering from the Pandemic ($5000).
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding source: University of Regina Humanities Research Institute
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Oba, F. White, J. Weeks, L., & Pierson, J. Social Hub Club for Older Adults of People of African Descents and Friends ($25, 000). Government of Canada.
New Horizons for Seniors Program.
Luhanga, F. L. (PI), Stonebanks, C. D., Oba, F., Salami, O.O., Maposa, S., Puplampu, V. A. Revealing Black undergraduate nursing students’ experiences in Saskatchewan (114,376).
Role: Co-investigator
Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants
Puplampu, V. A. (PI), Falihi, A., Moasun, F. Y., Luhanga, F. L., Salma, J., Osuji, J. C., Mvumbi Mambu, L., Bushi, O. J., Salami, O. O., Linnick, D., Paine, L., Nsaliwa, S. Partnership to strengthen older racialized immigrants’ social connectedness in Canda: the impacts of the living environment (199,098).
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant.
Atulaegwu, W. (PI) & Puplampu, V. A. (Co-PI). Exploring the Challenges Faced by Nursing Students Associations in Saskatchewan Universities- A Pilot Study ($2500)
Role: Co-PI
Funding source: University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing