Peter Nuro-Ameyaw is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of the School of Allied Health Sciences (SAHS), University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, Ghana.
Education
He obtained his MPhil in Nutrition from the University of Ghana, topping it with a post-graduate certificate in Nutritional Epidemiology from the German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany. He undertook his undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Coast, obtaining a BSc. (Hons) in Biochemistry. He also has several certificates obtained by undertaking eLearning courses with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, and University of Birmingham, as well as FAO/INFOODS.
Peter Nuro-Ameyaw is currently pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry at University of Ghana, Legon, investigating the genetics of an aspect of a health condition that afflicts 14 out of 100 children in the country. This dire condition, that is, preterm birth, kills a child every 60 minutes in Ghana
Work Experience
He started his career as a teaching assistant at the Biochemistry Department, University of Cape Coast, and took part in several researches including micronutrient deficiencies. As part of his research activities there, he used laboratory rats for an in-vivo research into food composition of indigenous underutilized food plant species. He was a research assistant on a maternal and child health project at the University of Ghana Medical School. He joined UHAS in 2014.
Mr. Nuro-Ameyaw has worked on several committees and contributed to policy drafting, including the design of an evaluation framework and criteria for the quality of published food composition tables and databases, which was championed by FAO/INFOODS. He was also part of the formulation of the mentorship policy of SAHS-UHAS and the welfare policy of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, UHAS.
Science/Research Output
He has 4 publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers at 11 conferences. His research interests span maternal and child health, population genetics, nutrigenomics, microbiomes, and food composition.
His long term-term goal is to develop tailor-made interventions to minimise preterm birth occurrence through collaborative research. Peter’s short to medium term goal is to identify genetic markers associated with spontaneous preterm in Ghana.