Prof. Dr. Ina Danquah
Research Group Lead
As a nutrition epidemiologist, my main research interests are in i) characterizing relationships between climate change and nutrition; ii) designing, implementing, and evaluating context-specific climate change adaptation strategies that are nutrition-sensitive and/or nutrition-specific; and iii) determining nutrition and health co-benefits of behavioural climate-change mitigation actions. Urbanization, migration, and nutrition transition constitute cross-cutting themes of my work.
Education
- Habilitation in Epidemiology and Public Health at Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin (2016 - 2018)
- M.Sc. Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (2013 - 2016)
- Dr. rer. medic. at Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin (2007 - 2011)
- M.Sc. (Diplom) Nutrition Science at Potsdam University, including one semester at University of Ghana, Accra (2001 - 2007)
Contributions
Projects & Grants
- OPTIMA – Omics Approach for Personalized Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for African and European Populations (BMBF; 2023 - 2025)
- HealthyDiets4Africa – Combating malnutrition in Africa through diversification of the food system (Horizon Europe-CL6; 2023 - 2028)
- ARISE-NUTRINT - Reducing nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in adolescence and youth: Interventions and policies to boost nutrition fluency and diet quality in Africa (Horizon Europe-HLTH; 2023 - 2026)
- Research Unit "Climate Change and Health in sub-Saharan Africa" (DFG; 2020 - 2025) www.cch-africa.de
- Robert Bosch Junior Professorship for Research into the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources 2019 (Robert Bosch Foundation; 2019 - 2025)
- RODAM - Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants (European Commission's 7th Framework Programme; 2012 - 2015) www.rod-am.eu
Other scientific projects and initiatives
- COPLANT - Cohort study on Plant-based diets in Germany
- Plant-based diets among youth elite soccer players in Germany
- The importance of early-life exposure to malaria for the cardio-metabolic profile and dietary risk factors among young adults in Northern Ghana
- Nutrition-specific interventions to improve nutrition and health among agro-pastoralists in Somaliland