Professor Francis B. Zotor is a public health nutrition and is a registered public health nutritionist. He is a recognized leader spanning over two decades in nutrition across Africa and has been instrumental in driving and promoting the establishment of a strong nutrition profession on the continent, training and research to underpin programme delivery especially across the health and education sectors in Africa. He serves on a number of national and international boards and societies associated with nutrition..

Education

Professor Francis B. Zotor received his first degree in Biotechnology from the University of Westminster, UK,  and Masters in Biotechnology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK and his PhD in Public Health Nutrition from the University of Greenwich, UK. He also holds a PgDip in Higher Education Teaching from the University of Greenwich, UK.

Work Experience

Professor Zotor until relocating in Ghana in 2013 served as a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich where he taught several courses in nutrition and biotechnology at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As part of his duties was responsible in overseeing tutor-tutee allocations within his school.

Science/Research Output 

Francis Zotor is a registered public health nutritionist and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. He is a recognized leader in nutrition spanning over two decades of work across Africa. He has been instrumental in driving and promoting the establishment of a strong nutrition profession on the continent, training and research to underpin programme delivery especially across the health and education sectors in Africa.

His areas of research largely revolve around developing and implementing methodologies for nutrition and health related research activities to benefit vulnerable populations across Africa. His research interests cover a global dimension of population and nutritional epidemiology; specifically, the links between poverty, food and nutrition security and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across the life cycle. He is a food product development specialist and co-originator of the Food Multimix (FMM) concept. The global context of his work has enabled him to work in both developed and developing societies.

Selected Publications 

• Pradeilles, R., Marr, C., Laar, A., Holdsworth, M., Zotor, F., Tandoh, A., Klomegah, S., Coleman, N., Bash, K., Green, M., & Griffiths, P.L. (2019). How ready are communities to implement actions to improve diets of adolescent girls and women in urban Ghana? BMC Public Health. (Read more...)
• Rose Omari, Francis Zotor, Julia Tagwireyi and Laila Lokosang (2019) Advocacy for scaling up biofortified crops for improved micronutrient status in Africa: approaches, achievements, challenges and lessons. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. (Read more...)
• William S. Harris and Francis B. Zotor (2019) Omega-3 fatty acids and risk for fatal coronary disease. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. (Read more...)
• Nuworza Kugbey, Theodore Atsu Nortu, Bright Akpalu, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Francis Bruno Zotor (2018) Prevalence of geriatric depression in a community sample in Ghana: Analysis of associated risk and protective factors. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 78, 171-176 
• Stewart Forsyth, Philip Calder, Francis Zotor, Paul Amuna, Barbara Meyer, Bruce Holub (2018) Dietary DHA and arachidonic acid in early life – what is the best evidence for policymakers? Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 72 (3), 210-222.
• MP Kwabla, C Gyan, F Zotor (2018) Nutritional status of in-school children and its associated factors in Denkyembour District, eastern region, Ghana: comparing schools with feeding and non-school feeding... Nutrition journal 17 (1), 8
• EK Aglago, E Landais, F Zotor, G Nicolas, MJ Gunter, P Amuna, N Slimani (2018) Optimising design and cost-effective implementation of future pan-African dietary studies: a review of existing economic integration and nutritional indicators for scenarion-based profiling and clustering of countries. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 77 (1), 84-93