PROFILE OF PROFESSOR PAUL AMUNA

Professor Paul Amuna was appointed Dean of the School of Public Health, University of Health & Allied Sciences, in August 2019. Prior to this, he was Subject Matter Expert for Research and faculty member for the Family Medicine and Community Medicine postgraduate Residency Programmes at the Primary Health Care Corporation, Qatar, and Adjunct Associate Professor to the UHAS School of Public Health.

Education And Professional Qualifications

Prof. Amuna is a graduate of the University of Ghana Medical School and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sheffield. He is a physician scientist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and consultant in international nutrition and public health. He was previously Principal Lecturer at the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom.

Work Experience

As a pedagogic expert, he has a special interest in educational standards and benchmarks, curriculum design and quality assurance in Higher Education, and serves as mentor and trainer in this field. Over the past three decades, he has helped to establish, design, run and evaluate undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes across a range of subjects in the biological, sports and exercise physiology, nutrition, pharmacy and medical sciences at a number of European and African Universities. He has also led the design of tailor-made Continuing Education programmes for institutions in Europe and Africa                           

Research Output

As a research leader, Paul’s research interests include links between maternal health and wellbeing and inter-generational risks of chronic disease and the nutrition transition. He has led research in Africa and Asia on maternal nutrition and pregnancy outcomes (South Africa, Nepal). He has also led research in the Arab Gulf on Diabetes patient education and clinical outcomes (Qatar); risk factors and interventions on childhood obesity (ECHO-zone) in Qatar, food safety and nutrition labelling (Qatar), overweight and obesity in children (Kuwait) and the impact of migration on non-communicable disease risk among South Asians in the UK. He is co-originator of the Food Multimix (FMM) Concept with Professor Francis Zotor, the focus of which is to promote the harnessing the ‘nutrient strengths’ of individual food ingredients to maximise their nutritional benefits to targeted vulnerable groups.

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