Marian Abrafi Osei
© Marian Abrafi Osei
Marian Abrafi Osei

Affiliations
  • KAAD
  • TRA Sustainable Futures Bonn University
  • IPTi-follow up study
Research topics
  • Dietary patterns
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Early-life exposures
  • Cardio-metabolic profile
  • Young Adulthood
Marian Abrafi Osei is a nutrition scientist by training. She is part of the multi-center, prospective cohort study in Ghana on early-life exposure to malaria and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in adult life (IPTi-follow up study). Her current doctoral research focuses on the complex relationships between early-life exposures, dietary patterns, and cardiometabolic conditions. She holds a BSc in Community Nutrition and a MPhil in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. For her Master's studies, she researched the efficacy of acute malnutrition management among selected nutrition rehabilitation sites in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as the lead dietitian at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. She served as a clinical preceptor, training and mentoring many nutrition and dietetics students.
Selected publications

Conference paper presentations 

Osei M.A., Agbozo F., Mockenhaupt F. P., Abubakari A., Kallah-Dagadu G., Kurniawan L. A., Danquah I., (2025) - Dietary patterns and diabetes mellitus among young adults in Northern Ghana: A cross-sectional study- oral presentation made at European Diabetes Epidemiology Group (EDEG) conference, Umeå, Sweden

Osei M.A., Agbozo F., Mockenhaupt F. P., Abubakari A., Kallah-Dagadu G., Kurniawan L. A., Danquah I., (2025) - Exploring dietary patterns among northern Ghanaian youth: a cross-sectional study - poster presentation made at the Conference on Adolescent Health in Sub-Saharan Africa (CAHSSA) at Lagos, Nigeria

Osei, M.A. and Annan, R.A. (2019) – Efficacy of acute malnutrition management among selected nutrition rehabilitation sites in the Ashanti Region of Ghana - poster presentation made at the Fourth Federation of African Nutrition Societies (FANUS IV) conference at Kigali, Rwanda

 

Marian Abrafi Osei
© Marian Abrafi Osei
Marian Abrafi Osei

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Junior Researcher

Nutrition and Planetary Health (ZEF HEALTH)