Kasim Abdulai (PhD., RD.) is a Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics. He has academic training in Nutrition, Dietetics, and Public Health. Dr. Abdulai’s main areas of teaching are Human Nutrition and Diet Therapy. He has several years’ experience in the field of research and has worked on diverse research projects. His research focuses on public health nutrition: nutrition and HIV, and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases.
Dr. Abdulai is adept at data processing /management and statistical analysis: He has extensive knowledge in the use of Microsoft Office package, SPSS, Mendeley, Zotero, Publish or Perish, and EndNote software for referencing.
He is the Executive Director (Operations) of the Coalition of Actors for Public Health Advocacy – CAPHA, a Coalition that is implementing the Advocating for Health (A4H) Project (https://www.advocating4health.org/), funded by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI). He is currently the Departmental Clinical Coordinator: coordinating and supervising clinical practice and training of students at the Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics. Dr. Abdulai appears regularly on popular national and private television shows as well as radio programmes to discuss topical issues that affect human life and are related to public health.
Dr. Abdulai is a member of the Ghana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (GAND) - the only professional association representing the professional, educational, public and workplace interests of licensed and registered Dietitians and Nutritionists in Ghana, HIV360 Research Group - a multidisciplinary group of local and international researchers with interest in HIV), and hm2r www.hm2r.org) - a global mentoring think tank.