Daniel Mensah is a Lecturer and the Acting Head, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana. He lectures courses in Diet and Diseases, Medical Nutrition Therapy and Nutrition Counseling as well as co-coordinating Dietetic Clinical Practicum Sections in the Department. He also lectures nursing and midwifery students in Nutrition and Dietetics at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, of the University. He mentors dietetics students and trains them in clinical dietetic practice. He is an advocate of healthy eating and lifestyle modification for healthy living on a number of media outlets in Ghana. He is also the current president of the Ghana Dietetic Association (GDA).
Mr. Mensah is a practicing dietitian with specialization in Pediatric Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, and currently consults on part-time bases at the Volta Regional Hospital.
Education
He had his Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Master of Philosophy degree in Dietetics from University of Ghana, Legon.
Work Experience
He practiced as a senior dietician at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for four (4) years where he distinguished himself as the dietitian in charge of the Child Health Department and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the same hospital. He was also a dietetic training preceptor for dietetics students on clinical practical attachment to the Dietetic Department of the Hospital.
He is an experienced conference organizer and has been a consultant for authors of Healthy Living and Lifestyle Modification books, and content developer for radio programmes.
Science/Research Output
Daniel Mensah has research interests in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, maternal and infant and child nutrition, interplay between nutrition and infectious diseases. He also has an interest in how these various interests and the gut microbiome co-affect each other. He has worked on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Ghanaian Female Nurses, and Adiponectin Levels and Diabetes Status in Native Ghanaians.
