Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Prof Adeladza Amegah - Speaker

Leveraging Data Science Applications to Improve Children's Environmental Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (Contact-PI)

Dr. Kofi Amegah is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Nutritional Epidemiology at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana with a strong research portfolio in nutrition and environmental health. He is Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Vice-Dean of the School of Public Health. His research focuses on the interface of nutritional and air pollution exposure effects on maternal, perinatal and cardiovascular health adverse health outcomes using modern and robust epidemiological and statistical methods, and also leveraging emerging data science techniques. He leads the Ghana Urban Air Quality (GhanaAQ) and Breathe Accra Projects which seeks to bridge the air quality data gaps in Accra and other metropolitan areas of Ghana and to conduct epidemiologic research to bridge the evidence gap. He is a member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and Nutrition Society UK, and collaborator of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies. He is a member of the Exposure Working Group of the WHO Global Air Pollution and Health - Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG). He is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Pollution, and Associate Editor of Public Health Nutrition.