Academic Degrees
Primary Departmental Affiliation
Department of Biological, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Departmental Address
School of Public Health, Main Building Complex, Room A8a
Associate Affiliations
1. Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Department of Molecular & Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
2. School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interest
My research focuses on urban environmental health in low-income economies with emphasis on the impact of sanitation infrastructure, neighbourhood environmental conditions, environmental change and area-based socioeconomic inequalities on urban mortalities with a major focus on environmental determinants of urban health in general. More recently, my research interest has moved boundaries to include, vaccinology (i.e. from vaccine development through clinical trials, their licensure to their mass deployment in national vaccination programs on the field) and Genome Wide Association Analysis (GWAS) of common neglected tropical diseases e.g. Buruli Ulcer with an emphasis on genetics and environment interaction underlying its transmission and pathogenesis. Though a small working group at its formative stage, we have an ultimate goal to unravel the unintended urban health vulnerabilities associated with complex urban changes such as the growing consequence of urban air pollution and the multiple urban land uses on urban mortalities and urban health in general.
Honours and Awards
• Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2012 Leibniz-DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship
• AOK Prize 2011 Best Doctoral Dissertation 2011, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Oct. 2008 –March 2009 DAAD Scholarship for Doctoral Thesis
• May 2008 – March 2011 Ghana Government GetFund Scholarship Doctoral Studies
• 2006 Gates Institute Fellowship, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
• 2006 Zayed International Prize for the Environment, 2nd Prize. As one of the authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
Teaching
• GSPH 215 Basic Principles of Environmental Health 2 Credits
• GSPH 325 Environmental Quality and Sanitary Inspection 2 Credits
• GSPH 427 Domestic and Industrial Waste Water Disposal 2 Credits
• GSPH 620 Application of New Technologies in Public Health Research – 2 Credit hours
• Graduate Seminar on Advanced Vaccinology (under development)
Recent Publications