About

2/12/2024- on going LECTURER- UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

1/9/2023- 29/11/2024 LECTURER-WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA

Roles: Lecturing Nutrition and Food science, Medical Genetics, Nursing Seminars

Research project work coordinator

16/11/2022- 2024 ADJUNCT LECTURER- CENTRAL UNIVERSITY

Role: Lecturing Nutrition and Food science

18/11/2022 – 2024 CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST (LOCUM) – UNIV. OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES CLINIC

Role: Assessment of clients’ dietary habits and lifestyle practices and offering the necessary counselling to stay healthy.

05/04/2021 – 20/12/2021 – Accra, Ghana CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST (VOLUNTEER) – GHANA POLICE HOSPITAL

Role: Assessment of clients’ dietary habits and lifestyle practices and offering the necessary counselling to stay healthy.

2017 – 2020 – CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST (LOCUM) – CROWN MEDICAL CENTER Accra, Ghana

Role: Assessment of clients’ dietary habits and lifestyle practices and offering the necessary counselling to stay healthy.

09/08/2016 – 27/03/2017 CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST (LOCUM) – UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST Hospital, Cape Coast, Ghana

Role: Assessment of clients’ dietary habits and lifestyle practices and offering the necessary counselling to stay healthy.

30/03/2014 – 04/08/2016 PRINCIPAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT – UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Role: lecturing of nutrition and food science and supervising of students’ project works.

08/2007 – 03/2013 SENIOR LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST – UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST

Role: Assisting lecturers with students’ laboratory works.

08/2006 – 08/2007 LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST – DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST

Role: Assisting lecturers with students’ laboratory works.

Education

07/07/2024- on going MED TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION-University of Cape Coast, Ghana

26/07/2016 – 12/2021 PHD NUTRITION – University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

8/8/2011-31/7/2013- MPHIL NUTRITION – University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

2004 – 2006 –BSC (HONS) LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Research Interest

Research on energy drink consumption and its effects on health and performance of students athletes on the University of Ghana campus. The following are the set objectives:

1. To determine the prevalence of energy drink consumption among students athletes on the University of Ghana campus
2. To determine the knowledge of students’ athletes on the University of Ghana campus on energy drinks
3. To determine the relationship between energy drink consumption, health, and performance.

Publications

Setorglo, J., Abban, H. A., Setorglo, L., Lenia, M., Selasie, Setorglo, S. P., Makinde, R. S.,  & Owusu, W. B. (2025). Association between trimester-specific gestational weight gain and newborn anthropometric outcomes at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital,   Accra.         American Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences, 13(1), 36-46.

Abban, H. A., Adu-Afarwuah, S., Harrison, O. A., Vuvor, F., Senuyeme, T., Otu-Nyarko, S.,         & Steiner-Asiedu, M. (2024). Predictors and pathways associated with potentially      high risk for preeclampsia among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in          selected hospitals in Ghana. Science and Development Journal, 9(1).

Abban, H. A., Setorglo, J., Nsiah-Asamoah, C., Acquah, S., & Steiner-Asiedu, M. (2024).             The prevalence and predictors of metabolic syndrome among commercial long-            distance bus drivers in Cape Coast, Ghana. World Journal of Public Health, 9(4),    396-405.

Abban, H. A., Harrison, O. A., Vuvor, F., Otu-Nyarko, S., & Steiner-Asiedu, M. (2021). Risk        factors of cardiovascular diseases in Ghana. Science and Development, 5(1).

Setorglo, J., Abban, H. A., Steiner-Asiedu, M., Gorleau, P. N., Egbi, G., & Nsiah-Asamoah,          C. (2020). The prevalence and predictors of undiagnosed hypertension among             commercial long-distance bus drivers in Cape Coast, Ghana. Journal of Public     Health    Policy Planning, 4(5), 70-78.

Abban, H. A., Barnes, P., Asante, D., Effah-Yeboah, E., & Nsiah, P. (2017). Prevalence of             metabolic syndrome among diabetes patients in Cape Coast, Ghana. Journal of Food  and Nutrition Sciences, 5(2), 34-43.

Barnes, P., Abban, H. A., Asante, D., & Effa-Yeboah, E. (2016). Biochemical and  histopathological study in rats intoxicated with carbon tetrachloro (IV) and treated.      International Journal of Current Research, 8(4), 29504-29509.

Asante, D., Effa-Yeboah, E., Barnes, P., Abban, H. A., Ameyaw, E. O., Boampong, J. N.,  Ofori, E. G., & Dadzie, J. B. (2016). Antidiabetic effect of young and old ethanolic            leaf extracts of Vernonia amygdalina: A comparative study. Journal of Diabetes          Research, 2016, Article 8252741.