I am a registered Nutritionist who has great passion for maternal, adolescent and child nutritional issues in developing countries. I am also interested in the Nutrition Education of students who are being trained to become health professionals.In the past 15 years, I have been actively involved in studies that have focused on community-based nutritional issues among vulnerable groups as such infants, young children, women of child-bearing age and adolescents in Ghana. My research has been focused on exploring individual, maternal, household and community-level factors that influence the feeding and nutritional status of infants and young children in poor-resourced districts. I have been actively involved in conducting studies to assess the impact of School Feeding Programmes on the dietary intakes of school children through the Tailoring Food Sciences to Endogenous Patterns of Local Food Supply for Future Nutrition (TELFUN) project. With my background in Education, I have collaborated with a team of Researchers from Ghana, South Africa, Bangladesh and India to study the impact of child undernutrition on access to basic education in the Consortium for Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE) project funded and supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), The Centre for International Education, University of Sussex and The Institute of Education, University of London, UK. I have also collaborated with Researchers in the Netherlands to access the contribution of the Ghana School feeding programme to Micronutrient Adequacy of Ghanaian Schoolchildren in Northern Ghana. I have also undertaken studies that assessed Ghanaian adolescents and young adults (university students) dietary practices which have formed the basis for developing nutrition education interventions tailored toward meeting their nutritional needs. I have led various studies that have focus on evaluating the nutritional knowledge of health students and professionals to guide curriculum reforms in the discipline of nutrition, a vital aspect of their training. My studies have also focused on examining the dietary intakes and practices of some neglected vulnerable groups such as commercial long-distance drivers, health professionals and students’ sports men and women. I have collaborated with Researchers in the field of ICT education to conduct a study on mobile phones facilitation of health promotion and disease prevention information among health science students. The findings served as an ‘eye-opener’ for health educators and mobile service providers concerning factors that should be taken into consideration when framing health messages to attract health students. With my background in Food Science, I have also collaborated on projects that have focused on improving the nutritional composition of staple and indigenous foods such as sorghum, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, Indian Almond and African Locust Beans by employing food processing techniques and principles.
Prof. (Mrs.) Christiana Naa Atsreh Nsiah-Asamoah
Associate Professor - ( Senior Member ) Department of Clinical Nutrition and DieteticsHead of Department
Department of Clinical Nutrition and DieteticsSenior Tutor
Valco Hall-
Participant
Nestlé Nutrition Institute Webcast: World Prematurity Day. Advances in Neonatal Nutrition: Caring for babies born too soon. webinar.
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Participant
Nestlé Nutrition Institute Webcast: World Prematurity Day. Advances in Neonatal Nutrition: Caring for babies born too soon. webinar.
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Facilitator
Contemporary Issues in Fisheries Management. Fisheries Leadership Short course for Practitioners funded by USAID/Fisheries Recovery Activity Ghana.
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Presenter
International and Regional Fisheries Institutional Frameworks and Bodies. Workshop on Destabilising Impacts of Distant Water Fishing Vessels (DWFV) in the Gulf of Guinea Yaounde, Cameroon.
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Guest Speaker
“Promoting Research Excellence for Impact on Marine Conservation in Africa”, Institute for Oceans and Fisheries Online Seminar Series University of British Columbia, Canada.
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Co-Facilitator
“Grants Proposal Writing Workshop” University for Development Studies.
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Presenter
“Performance of the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience”, Country Round Table Workshop Association of African Universities (AAU), Online.
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Facilitator
“Regional Political Parties Dialogue on Fisheries: Protecting Our Fish, Securing Our Future, Live Engagement on JoyNews TV Centre for National Culture, Cape Coast.
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Presenter
Professorial Inaugural Lecture on the topic “Our Oceans: Securing Our Common Future through Transformative Research” Medical School Auditorium, University of Cape Coast.
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Presenter
Africa’s Plastic Revolution: Advancing Global Solutions for Healthy Oceans, T.D. Walter Bean Professorship Public Lecture University of Waterloo, Canada.
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Presenter
Expanding the Impact of Research on Africa’s Blue Economy. National Consultative Workshop for the Formulation of a National Blue Economy Strategy for Angola Luanda, Angola.
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Panelist
Regional Steering Committee Workshop for the World Bank West African Coastal Resilience Investment Projects (WACA ReSiP and ReiP2) Banjul, Gambia.
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Facilitator
Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change. Short-term Training Course funded by USAID Ghana.
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Co-Discussant
“Expanding the Impact of Blue Economy in Africa” (with Professor Rashid Sumaila) World Bank Headquarters, Washington.
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Facilitator
Workshop on “Winning Research and Development Grants in a Competitive World” Bolgatanga Technical University, Ghana.
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Facilitator
Workshop on “Proposal and Grants writing” University of Ghana, Ghana.
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Speaker
Study Tour on Sustainable Fisheries Management & Leadership University of Rhode Island, United States.
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Presenter
Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) Ghana Case Study. Bootcamp on moving fisheries from Vulnerability to Viability Puri, Delhi, India.
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Guest Speaker
Workshop Presentation on “Expanding the Impact of Research on Africa’s Blue Economy in Africa Hohai University, China.
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Participant
6th ACE Impact Regional Workshop of the World Bank and the Association of African Universities Accra (Online).
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Panelist
Seaweed (Sargassum) Invasion on the Ghanaian Coasts, Implications for the National Economy and Management Live TV Broadcast, GTV.
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Guest Speaker
“West African Fisheries”, Workshop by the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda.
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Member
Ghana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (GAND)
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Member
The Nutrition Society
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Member
African Nutrition Society
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Member
Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
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Member
Ghana Nutrition Association, Ghana
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Member
Ghana Science Association, Ghana
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Member
Di-Et-Tri, Association, Netherlands
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Team member, Contract for services to deliver a short course on Marine Litter under the OCPP
Cefas/UKAID
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Panel Chair, Reviewed Environmental Impact Statement of PECAN Energies for Offshore Exploration of Oil & Gas
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana, Secondi/Takoradi
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Team member, Contract for development of a short course on Marine Litter for the West Africa Region
Ocean Country Partnership Program (OCPP) funded by Cefas/UKAID
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Team member, Contract services to conduct data collection surveys on abandoned lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) in Ghana
Ocean Country Partnership Program (OCPP) funded by Cefas/UKAID
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Lead Consultant, Contract for the Development of Fishery Courses Syllabi for Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences (DoFAS), University of Liberia
IDA-V3100
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Panel Chair, Evaluation of Applications for recruitment of Environmental, Social Safeguards Officers for Ghana’s Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI)
World Bank funded West Africa Coastal Areas Management Programme
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Lead Consultant, Consultancy to review and align national fisheries and aquaculture polices and laws with the PFRS, regional instruments and global best practices for 15 AU Member States
African Union – InterAfrican Bureau of Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
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Lead Consultant, Mechanisms to Facilitate the Domestication of Global Instruments and Initiatives (2022)
African Union – InterAfrican Bureau of Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
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Lead Consultant, Identification of Issues for SIDS, Development of Draft Strategic Positions for SIDS
African Union – InterAfrican Bureau of Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
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Team member, Environmental Systems Analysis of the Avu Lagoon Protected area
Calgary Zoo Foundation
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Trainer, Conduct Marine Spatial Planning Workshop in Ghana
University of Liverpool
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Team member, Pre-feasibility study for nature-based intervention for Anlo Beach community in Ghana
Valued at US$32,365.00
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Team member, Marine Plastic Pollution Study in Liberia
Conservation International
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Team member, Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate - WACA -VAR Workshop
World Bank
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Consultant, Support Development of Multi-sector Resilience Investment Programme for the West Africa Coastal Area Management Program
World Bank
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Consultant, Issues and Opportunities in the Ghanaian Fishery Sector: Addressing the context, prospects and challenges
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), United Kingdom
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Consultant, Estimations on renewable energy investments in Ghana
Highland Star Group (HSG) of Companies, Geneva, Switzerland
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Team Member, Regional Mapping of Experts and Institutions in Coastal management
World Bank
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Lead Consultant, Review of the Fisheries Act 2002 (act 625) and the Development of Draft Regulations for the conduct of Fisheries Impact Assessments
Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association (GITA) and GOGIG funded by DFID/UK
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Team member, Environmental baseline survey of water bodies in the Great Consolidated Diamond Ghana Limited (GCDGL) mining concession
AERC Ltd.
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Team member, Scoping Study on the Dredging of the Whin Estuary in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis
UCC Consultancy Unit/Consolidated Energy Ltd.
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Team member, Social Ecology of Anlo Beach Wetland of Ghana
Friends of the Nation/IUCN/French Global Environment Facility (GEF)
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Principal Investigator, Biodiversity Assessment of Urban Wetlands in the Western Region, Ghana with focus on Essei and Butuah Lagoons and the Whin River Estuary
USAID through Friends of the Nation