ABOUT Dickson Amugsi

Dickson is an associate research scientist involved in maternal and child well-being. He is also a public health scientist with expertise in public health nutrition and nutritional epidemiology. Dickson is skilled at using secondary data, such as demographic and health surveys (DHS), to investigate health issues across the African continent. He has over 15 years of research experience in Ghana and Kenya.

He holds a PhD in international public health from the University of Bergen in Norway. He obtained a double Master of Science in international health from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; University College London, UK; and the University of Bergen in Norway. Dickson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Ghana. He has certificates in implementation research, nutritional epidemiology, and biostatistics, obtained respectively from WHO and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA.