Name: David Nana-Adjei
Staff ID:21927
Email address: dnadjei@ug.edu.gh; dnadjei6@gmail.com
Position: Senior Member
Grade: Senior Lecturer
Office Location: Ground floor, Charles Easmon Building, Korle-bu Campus
Education: PHD (School of Public Health, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), MSc (School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Ghana)
Research Interests: My research area is in renal epidemiology in low resourced settings and its relationship with diabetes, hypertension, and sickle cell disease. Improving early detection, prevention and genetic epidemiology of renal disease is key to my research interests.
Selected Publications
Boateng, D., Ayellah, B. B., Adjei, D. N., & Agyemang, C. (2022). Contribution of diabetes to amputations in sub-Sahara Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Primary Care Diabetes.
Warner, E. T., Jiang, L., Adjei, D. N., Turman, C., Gordon, W., Wang, L., ... & Lindström, S. (2021). A genome‐wide association study of childhood body fatness. Obesity, 29(2), 446-453.
Nembaware, V., Mazandu, G. K., Hotchkiss, J., Safari Serufuri, J. M., Kent, J., Kengne, A. P., Adjei D.N. ... & Sickle Cell Disease Ontology Working Group. (2020). The sickle cell disease ontology: Enabling collaborative research and co-designing of new planetary health applications. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 24(10), 559-567.
Anie, K. A., Olayemi, E., Paintsil, V., Owusu-Dabo, E., Adeyemo, T. A., Sani, M. U., ... Adjei D.N. …… & Ofori-Acquah, S. F. (2021). Sickle Cell Disease Genomics of Africa (SickleGenAfrica) Network: ethical framework and initial qualitative findings from community engagement in Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania. BMJ open, 11(7), e048208.
Forson, A. O., Adjei, D. N., Olu-Taiwo, M., Quarchie, M. N., & Asmah, H. R. (2020). Characterization of Campylobacter associated gastric enteritis among patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in a hospital in Accra, Ghana. Plos one, 15(10), e0240242.
Link for list of Publications
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Adjei-2
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2306-5723