Edmund Yeboah

Edmund is a research associate and doctoral student at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. He has a bachelor degree in agriculture and masters in life science economics and policy. His current work focuses on boosting climate change resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso and Kenya) through strengthening health systems and promoting financial adaptation tools (index-based weather insurance).

Also, he assists another project that assesses equality in health spending in three African Countries using benefit incident analyses. Before joining the institute; he had worked as a research assistant with the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture in Munich and the University of Hohenheim. He has expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

He is currently part of the doctoral student representatives for Dr.Sc.hum and Dr.med students at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health.

Education

From 2019             University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

                                  Doctoral Student

2019                        University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

                                 Certificate: Mixed Methods in International Health Research

2018                        University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

                                 Certificate: Financing Health care – Concepts, Challenges and Practices

2014-2017            Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

                                 MSc. Life Science Economics and Policy

2007-2011             University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

                                 BSc. General Agriculture