I am a registered Dietitian with a great passion for research and interventions in chronic non-communicable diseases and their risk factors such as unhealthy diets and obesity. I have a keen interest in empowering populations and communities to achieve optimal health through nutrition education and economic empowerment. In the past 3 years, I have taught, mentored and motivated students to be the best they can be within their communities and beyond and have also encouraged them to start nutrition and nutraceutical- related businesses. My research is focused on dietary patterns, food environment, chronic diseases and public health issues. I have been actively involved in promoting healthy food environment through stakeholder engagements and policy briefs and towards providing healthy food environment for persons across all the stages of the life cycle including testing the feasibility of breast milk banks in Ghana for infants. I provided technical assistance towards the development of Ghana's first ever Food-Based Dietary Guidelines. I have been a co-Consultant for three consultancies; two from the World Health Organization for the synthesis of evidence to update Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and the other from Elrha to conduct a systematic review on the impact of Food insecurity on health outcomes. I have also won a grant from the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy, University of Cape Coast. I am a fellow of the African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Non-Communicable Diseases and the World Academy of Science-German Research Foundation Programme. I have collaborated with research teams both locally and internationally including the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, KNUST, School of Public Health, The University of the Western Cape, South Africa and School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, China and Edinburgh Dementia Prevention, The University of Edinburg, United Kingdom. I have a passion for health promotion, improving quality of life of people and empowering the next generation through teaching and mentoring.
Currently, I am collaborating with researchers from the University of Edinburg, United Kingdom and the University of Education, Winneba to conduct research into the early risk factors of dementia among the adult Ghanaian population.