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Department of Indigenous Art and Technology
The researcher integrates sustainable practices across diverse fields, bridging the gap between traditional crafts like Ghanaian materials with modern technologies to enhance both environmental and social good. Focusing on innovative solutions using locally available materials for infrastructure improvements while preserving cultural heritage, the work aims to support and empower communities in developing regions through sustainable development strategies.
Department of Industrial Art
The researcher investigates the complex challenges and legal frameworks underlying maritime law issues across multiple domains, including international maritime law, maritime security, international development, and space exploration. By examining cases such as Ghana's maritime boundaries, the role of institutions like the UN Security Council in addressing global threats, and the pivotal contributions of organizations like the African Union under its Agenda 2063, they aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of these interrelated fields.

Department of Anatomy
The researcher has conducted extensive studies focusing on the natural and experimental applications of Cocoa extracts across various health conditions. This includes investigating cocoa's role in mitigating blood pressure (Malaria Research), preventing lipid buildup in neonates (Glaucoma), reducing cardiovascular risks in mothers, and enhancing maternal health outcomes. The research integrates pharmacological and biochemical investigations into diseases like haemoglobin pathies and lipid changes in newborns, as well as natural treatments for conditions such as clefts and pregnant issues.
Department of Civil Engineering
The researcher conducts a comprehensive study of material behavior across multiple domains, focusing on how materials respond under varying stresses and conditions. Their work encompasses geotechnical engineering, where they investigate shear strength influenced by mineral composition and wet-dry cycles; underground structures, examining geosynthetic materials and pipeline performance under static and dynamic loads; soil mechanics, analyzing deformation in expansive soils through experiments; and geophysical methods, applying electrical resistivity to study soil compaction. This interdisciplinary approach highlights the researcher's expertise in understanding material behavior across physical sciences and engineering disciplines.
Department of Civil Engineering
The researcher has conducted extensive work across diverse domains within physical sciences, with a focus on mining and resource management, environmental contamination, geotechnical studies, waste management, hydroelectric dam analysis, groundwater studies, and soil science. Their research integrates interdisciplinary methodologies, employing advanced techniques from scientific literature, geophysical methods, and analytical approaches to address complex environmental challenges. The researcher's work highlights the integration of traditional environmental issues with modern analytical and geological techniques, demonstrating a commitment to advancing understanding in areas such as resource management, contamination prevention, and sustainable practices across disciplines.
Department of Pharmaceutics
The researcher focuses on integrating phytochemistry, food science, herbal studies, and drug delivery methods across diverse scientific domains. Their work encompasses the application of plant-based ingredients in oral formulations, the impact of traditional medicine on patient adherence, the synthesis of polyaccharides for drug delivery systems, and the exploration of essential oils in therapeutic applications. Their research bridges phytochemistry with practical health sciences, highlighting the role of plants in both natural and synthetic formulations, while also examining the interplay between herbal studies and pharmaceutical advancements.
Department of Mathematics
The researcher has focused extensively on several key themes within their work, including optimal control dynamics in infectious diseases such as HIV, gonorrhea, and Ebola, alongside broader research into poxvirus and parasitic disease transmission. Their work integrates mathematical models with advanced methodologies like fractional calculus and optimization techniques to address complex systems across public health, ecology, and environmental science. The researcher's interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the application of these tools in understanding and mitigating outbreaks, while also highlighting their role in advancing innovative modeling approaches that consider multiple factors in disease spread.

Department of Pharmacy Practice
The researcher's work spans diverse domains examining health disparities and interventions across several critical areas. Their research focuses on blood pressure studies in Ghana, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Forensic Toxicology, HIV/AIDS Research, and Pharmaceutical Practices. Through systematic reviews of published papers, the researcher highlights the interconnectedness of pharmacological access, patient affordability, health behaviors, antibiotic use implications, forensic investigations, HIV/AIDS prevention strategies, and healthcare costs—all contributing to a holistic understanding of health issues from multiple perspectives.
Department of Computer Science
The researcher's work is centered on integrating advanced AI techniques with traditional computational methods across diverse fields such as healthcare, smart agriculture, cybersecurity, and data analysis. Their focus includes enhancing security protocols through steganography and cryptography, optimizing data classification and anomaly detection, improving network performance, and addressing health-related challenges. By combining innovative solutions with robust methodologies, the researcher aims to develop a comprehensive approach that integrates these elements across various domains, ultimately striving for a secure and efficient framework.
Department of Behavioural Sciences
The researcher has conducted extensive studies across multiple themes, including vaccine acceptance, mental health, technology adoption, BRCA mutations, COVID-19 responses, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and SARS-CoV-2 research. Their work explores factors influencing vaccine acceptance and self-examination in health students, investigates the role of technology in substance use, examines the relationship between self-isolation and mental health, applies these findings to TBIs, and analyzes COVID-19 prevention strategies. The researcher's goal is to develop a holistic understanding of health behaviors and mental health outcomes across diverse contexts, with applications in public health interventions.
Department of Pharmacology
The researcher has developed novel methodologies for multi-scale modeling across physics, engineering, biology, and social sciences, emphasizing computational approaches that integrate diverse data sources to predict complex system behaviors. Their work validates these models through experimental and simulation-based validations while highlighting broader societal impacts such as climate change and policy-making, positioning their research as a key advance in interdisciplinary modeling techniques.
Department of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
This researcher focuses on three main aspects of animal behavior and ecology: (1) the impact of organic and insect-based feed on bird populations in Ghana, particularly using termite treatments as a sustainable alternative to conventional feed; (2) the role of black soldier fly larvae as a protein supplement for ornithological studies, examining their effects on egg characteristics, growth performance, and physiological indices; and (3) the metabolic dynamics of broiler chickens, including how flock age influences egg shape, hatchability, and growth rate. Their work bridges ecological integration with nutritional strategy to provide insights into bird productivity, energy demands, and food source availability.