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NAME
DESIGNATION DEPARTMENT
THESIS FOCUS AREA
Environment and Climate Platform
Ernest Agyemang
Assistant Lecturer
Geography and Resource
Development
Virtue out of necessity? urbanization, urban
growth and Okada services in Accra, Ghana
Enock Dankyi
Assistant Lecturer
Chemistry
Sources, environmental levels and fate of
pesticides and heavy metals in Cocoa-growing
soils in Ghana.
Growth and Employment Platform
Jemima Yakah
Assistant Lecturer
Agricultural Extension
Development of multi stakeholder models,
tools and strategies for the restoration and
sustainability of three agro-ecological zones of
Ghana: An alternative approach for Agricultural
extension in climate change adaptation
Raphael Odoom
Teaching Assistant
Marketing and Customer
Management
Adaptation of competitive strategies by agri-
culture SME’s in Ghana
George Acheampong
Teaching Assistant
Marketing and Customer
Management
Innovation among rural small and medium
scale enterprises
Philip Kofi Adom
Graduate Assistant
Economics
Impact of rising food prices on household
welfare in Ghana
Human Health Platform
Emilia Asuquo Udofia
Lecturer
PhD candidate
Community Health, UGMS
Biological, Occupational and
Environmental Health, SPH
Managing solid medical waste in the Greater
Accra Region, Ghana: A district level study
of waste generation, collection systems and
impacts
Helena Lamptey
Principal Research
Assistant
PhD Candidate
Immunology, SPH
Biological, Environmental
and Occupational Health
Sciences, SPH
The impact of anti-malarial drugs and naturally
acquired immunity on Plasmodium falciparum
asexual stage development into gametocytes
in a malarial endemic area in Ghana.
Seth Kwabena Amponsah Assistant Lecturer
Pharmacology, UGMS
Interaction between Amikacin and
Aminophylline in Ghanaian Newborns with
Sepsis
Philip Debrah
Assistant Lecturer
Microbiology, University
of Ghana Medical School
(UGMS)
Improving Malaria Chemotherapy by Optimiz-
ing Drug Formulation and Assessing Drug
Quality
Strengthening of PhD education
Another major component of the BSU programme is the
running of several capacity building courses for PhD students
including the following:
Advanced Analytical Techniques for
Environmental Assessment: Soil Carbon, Climate Change
Adaptation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Theory,
Philosophy of Science, Proposal Writing/Fundraising and
Scientific Communication, Qualitative Research Methods,
Quantitative Impact Evaluation of Policy Interventions, The
Research Process.
Additionally, 3 Training-of-Trainer (ToT) courses for
staff under BSU-EC and BSU-GE, as follows:
Research
Dissemination PhD Supervisor ToT Course, Fund Raising and
Research Proposal/Writing ToT Course.
A total of 200 students and staff were trained in the BSU
workshops.
PhD Students in a BSU Workshop
