Richard Socrate Adzesi is a statistician and researcher with experience in public health research, data analysis and programme evaluation. He holds an MPhil in Statistics from the University of Ghana and an MSc in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation from KNUST. His work has covered childhood mortality, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, with an interest in understanding how health risks differ across populations and geographical settings. He uses statistical modelling, Bayesian methods and machine learning to examine these differences. He is currently involved in the FoodDiverse project at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, where his research focuses on dietary diversification, sustainable nutrition and cardiometabolic health among populations undergoing dietary transition.