About

Richmond Aryeetey is a Professor of Public Health Nutrition at the University of Ghana School of Public Health. He has over two decades of experience as a public health nutrition expert and has, previously, served as the head of the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health. He has also served as Head of the Department of Biostatistics. He is currently a Visiting Professor at University of Sheffield’s Centre for Health and Related Research. He is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Richmond Aryeetey’s interdisciplinary research intersects Human Nutrition, Public Health, Food Systems, and Public Policy, across the entire life course. However, his work places much emphasis on the nutrition of young children, adolescents, and women in reproductive age. His research interests focus on dietary intake, nutritional status of individuals and populations, food systems, diets, overweight and diet-related diseases. In the last decade, he has championed policies for addressing suboptimal diets in West Africa, resulting in the development and implementation of Food-based Dietary guidelines for Ghana and the Gambia. Through his work, he has mentored more than 100 students and early career researchers.