Phyllis Addo is a public health nutrition lecturer at the Department of Family and Community Health, Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS).

Education

She holds a PhD in Nutrition and Food Safety (Public Health option) from the West China School of Public Health at Sichuan University. She graduated from the University of Ghana’s Nutrition and Food Science Department with a Bachelor’s in Nutrition and Food Science and a Master of Philosophy in Nutrition.

Science/Research Output

Her research focuses on child and adolescent nutrition, the food environment, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). She is particularly interested in policy actions and interventions to control unhealthy diets and related NCDs in the context of the broader food systems. Her doctoral research investigated trans fatty acid exposure in Ghanaian diets, specifically deep-fried foods.

Before joining UHAS, she contributed to research on the school food environment in Ghana as a postdoctoral fellow with the MEALS4NCDs Projects at the University of Ghana. She currently serves on the Multi-sectoral Technical Working Group on Trans-Fatty Acids in Ghana. She is a reviewer for Frontiers in Public Health and Heliyon Journals.