Dr. Faith Agbozo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Health at the Fred N. Binka School of Public Health of the University of Health and Allied Sciences.
Education
Dr Faith Agbozo, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Health at the Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, holds a PhD in Public Health with distinction (Dr Sc Hum thesis graded summa cum laude) from the Heidelberg University Medical Faculty in Germany with specializations in Maternal/Child Health and Epidemiology. She has an MPhil in Nutrition; a BSc in Family and Consumer Science and a Diploma in Nursing all from the University of Ghana as well as a Professional Diploma in Nursing from the Korle-Bu Nursing Training College. She has postgraduate qualifications in Epidemiology (School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Germany); and ‘Teaching at the University Level’ (Center for Higher Education, Heidelberg University).
Areas of Expertise
Dr Faith Agbozo is a Registered Nurse, a Certified Public Health Nutritionist and a Lactational Consultant. Before joining the University in 2013, she worked with the Ghana Health Service for almost a decade providing clinical and community care. Her research interest cuts across primary healthcare systems strengthening and implementation research that incorporates both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in the domains of reproductive epidemiology (safe motherhood, newborn care, postpartum support); non-communicable diseases in pregnancy (hyperglycemic, hypertensive, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders); nutritional epidemiology (maternal nutrition, infant and young child feeding including under challenging situations); health states and gut microbiome; and climate change and health.
Ongoing Projects and Main Collaborators
• Climate change adaptations and coping strategies of rural fisherfolks and the nexus with livelihoods, food security and health - Heidelberg University Institute of Global Health, Research Group on Climate Change, Nutrition and Health, Germany.
• Nutrition, health, and developmental registry of school children from early childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal school-based cohort – McGill University, School of Population and Global Health, Canada.
• Post-delivery surveillance and health system support services for women diagnosed with gestational diabetes - Heidelberg University, Institute of Global Health, Research Group on Global Health Policies and Systems, Germany.
• Continuum of care for preterm and low birth weight infants - ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Nursing, and the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Current Grants and Fellowships
• Fellow: Towards Leadership Programme by the Africa Research Excellence funded by the UK Medical Research Council.
• Postdoctoral Grant on Climate Research for Alumni and Postdocs in Africa (climapAfrica), 2022 awarded by the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) through DAAD (Read more....)
• Hospital Partnership grant funded by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) on a project titled “Timely Control of COVID-19 in Pregnancy, Childhood and Beyond”
• Fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Program, through the University of Pretoria (Read more....)
Scholarly Work
A total of 50 publications comprising: 30 peer reviewed full text publications; 18 peer reviewed published abstracts; and 2 published theses.
Links to publications: ORCID (Read more...) || Google Scholar (Read more...) || Publons (Read more...) || PubMed (Read more...)
Publications from 2021 to mid-2022
- Agbozo F, Bannerman E, Klomegah S and Zotor F (2022). Metabolic syndrome among patients attending a diabetic clinic in Ghana and the perceived quality of life: a case-control study. Human Nutrition & Metabolism. Volume 29, 200154. (Read more...).
- Bashiratu Y, Abdul-Nasir I, Agbozo F and Abubakari A (2022). Dietary habit, nutritional status and associated factors among adolescents in the Tamale metropolis, Ghana. African Journal of Food Science. Article in Press; Accepted 22 April 2022
- Agbozo F, Schuler C and Jahn J (2022). Adherence to appointments for gestational diabetes testing and pregnant women's experiences with two-hour postprandial glucose test: a mixed-methods study in Ghana. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22:287 (Read more...).
- Agbozo F, Schuler C and Jahn J (2022). IDF21-0680 Non-adherence to appointments for gestational diabetes testing and pregnant women’s experiences with 2-hour OGTT IDF21-0680. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 186S: 109594 (Read more...).
- Abdul-Mumin A, Abubakari A, Agbozo F, Abdul-Karim A, Nuertey BD, Mumuni K, Heuschen AK, Hennig L, Denkinger CM, Müller O and Jahn A (2021). Field evaluation of specificity and sensitivity of a standard SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic test: A prospective study at a teaching hospital in Northern Ghana. PLOS Global Public Health 1(12): e0000040 (Read more...).
- Hinneh KT, Jahn A and Agbozo F (2021). Barriers to screening, diagnosis, and management of hyperglycemia in pregnancy in Africa: a systematic review. International Health. 0: 1–11 (Read more...).
- Agbozo F and Jahn A. (2021). COVID-19 in Ghana: challenges and counter measures for maternal health service delivery in public health facilities. BMC Reproductive Health, 18:151 (Read more...).
- Adam, A., Fusheini, A., Ayanore, M.A., Amuna, N., Agbozo, F., Kugbey, N., Kubi-Appiah, P., Asalu, G.A., Agbemafle, I., Akpalu, B., Klomegah, S., Nayina, A., Hadzi, D., Afeti, K., Makam, C.E., Mensah, F. and Zotor, F.B., (2021). HIV Stigma and Status Disclosure in Three Municipalities in Ghana. Annals of Global Health, 87(1), p.49. (Read more...)
- Agbozo F, Abubakari A, Zotor F and Jahn A (2021). Gestational Diabetes Mellitus per Different Diagnostic Criteria, Risk Factors, Obstetric Outcomes and Postpartum Glycemia: A Prospective Study in Ghana Clin. Pract. 11, no. 2: 257-271. (Read more...)
- Addy ND, Agbozo F, Runge-Ranzinger S, Grys P (2021). Mental health difficulties, coping mechanisms and support systems among school-going adolescents in Ghana: A mixed-methods study. PLOS ONE 16(4): e0250424. (Read more...).
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +233 262 165005
