Professor Richmond Aryeetey is a Public Health Nutrition Specialist and Head of the Population, Family, and Reproductive Health Department at the University of Ghana.
He has been with the School of Public Health since 2007. He has a PhD in Human Nutrition from Iowa State University (Ames, USA) and both Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Public Health from the University of Ghana. His research focuses on Food systems and Nutrition policy, with emphasis on the diet and nutrition on infants and young children. He has extensive experience in conducting policy and field research related to optimizing infant and young feeding in various contexts in and outside Ghana. He teaches courses in Public Health Nutrition, Food Security and Malnutrition, Nutrition Rehabilitation and Nutrition Interventions. Professor Aryeetey is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Co-Chair of the Task Team for Ghana’s first Food-Based Dietary Guidelines. He is also a Co-Chair of the WHO Guidelines Development Committee on the upcoming Global Guidelines on Complementary feeding. He has over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.