Nana Kofi Owusu is a Lecturer at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Allied Health Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana where he lectures a wide variety of courses including Nutrition in Exercise Physiology and Sports, Diet and Disease, Introduction into Dietetics amongst others. He mentors dietetics students and trains them in clinical dietetic practice. He is a Media Advocate on healthy eating and lifestyle change for healthy living on many television and radio channels in Ghana. He is a widely sought after public speaker on nutrition and the author of the handy Nutritional Pills for life. He is also a practicing dietitian.
EDUCATION
He had his Master of Philosophy in Dietetics and Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Ghana. He is also a graduate of the Nutrition Update Course in Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He is a fellow of the African Nutrition Leadership Program from South Africa and has obtained extensive training in Curriculum Development from the YONSEI University in South Korea.
WORK EXPERIENCE
He practiced as a senior Dietician at the National Diabetes Management and Research Centre in the Korle-Bu teaching hospital for five years where he headed the Dietetic unit. He also worked in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department of the same hospital for two years. He was also taugh dietetics students clinical practical and sports nutrition for two years on part time basis before his appointment at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho.
He has been a consultant on developing heathy eating and lifestyle program content for television and radio.
RESEARCH INTEREST/OUTPUT
Nana Kofi Owusu has research interests in Diabetes management, cardiovascular disease management and sports nutrition research. Some of his works have centered on dietary intakes of Professional footballers in Ghana, nutritional status and cardiovascular risk factors among civil servants”. He has also worked on Dietary factors promoting proteinuria, nutrition knowledge assessments and adherence among diabetic patients.
