Ghana: History & Heritage

Shontay Delalue, PhD, MPH currently serves the Senior Vice President and Senior Diversity Officer at Dartmouth. She is the senior strategist and thought partner working with institutional leadership on Dartmouth’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and global efforts. She was recently tasked with overseeing the processes and supports for welcoming international students and protocols for supporting faculty, staff and students who travel abroad.

Dr. Delalue teaches in the Geisel School of Medicine’s Master of Public Health program and her research focuses on the intersections of DEI and global engagement as well as health disparities and wealth inequality. She has worked in admissions, advising, counseling as well as international and multicultural affairs in Maine, Alaska, and Rhode Island.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication and a Master of Education, both from the University of Maine. She earned a Ph.D. in Education through a joint program of the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. To complement her current work, she earned a Master of Public Health from Dartmouth College to address health disparities that impact underrepresented groups.

Originally from New Jersey, she is a proud first-generation college graduate and an avid traveler having been to 47 U.S. states and over 30 countries on six continents always exploring what makes us unique and similar.