Lifestyle Study

Lifestyle Study in Ghana

The lifestyle study aims to better understand the health benefits and risk of indigenous lifestyle practices of Ghanaians......

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Message from the study PI

Wherever you are reading this, take a look at the adult next to you. Chances are he or she appears healthy and nourished....

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What the survey is about

Project Health Ghana, in collaboration with Martin Luther Health Institute, Kintampo, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Jersey , Ghana Health Service, and Kintampo Health Research Centre is conducting research on understanding the risk of indigenous lifestyle practices of the indigenous Ghanaian -to understand the risk factors that lead to chronic diseases.

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Message from PI

Wherever you are reading this, take a look at the adult next to you. Chances are he or she appears healthy and nourished. Also, chances are his lifestyle choices and practices, a fundamental to existence, has gotten him or her either chronically exposed to risk factors or preventive factors of chronic diseases – the result of which will subsequently affect his quality of life, health and longevity....

DR. WILFRED AGBENYIKEY, SC.D, MPH

Director & Principal Investigator

Dr. Agbenyikey has been teaching and doing research since 2006 on environmental epidemiology and risk assessment, surgery epidemiology, and health quality indicators. He’s also a longtime advocate and activist on behavioral health issues.
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PROFESSOR RICHARD SIDERITS, MD

Co-Investigator

Dr. Siderits is an Associate Medical Director for the New Jersey state Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories. He is an Associate Professor at the RWJ University Medical School - Rutgers in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences.
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DR. OWUSU ACHWAW DUAH

Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Duah is a medical director at Dr Martin Luther King Clinic in Accra and an external examiner at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He is a retired lecturer and former Head of Chemical Pathology Department of University of Ghana Medical School.
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