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Prof. Dr. Ina Danquah (Test)
Affiliations
- University of Heidelberg
Research topics
- climate change
- nutrition
- health
Ina Danquah is a nutrition scientist specialized in epidemiology. Since 2019, Danquah investigates the interactions between climate change, nutrition and health. She employs the concept of Sustainable Nutrition, including the features of healthfulness, climate- and environmental friendliness, cultural acceptability, and affordability. Danquah designs, implements and evaluates adaptation strategies against climate change impacts in the Global South, as well as climate change mitigation approaches in the nutrition sector that confer health co-benefits. As a nutrition epidemiologist, Danquah characterizes the dietary behavior of populations living in sub-Saharan Africa and migrant groups in Europe. She examines relationships with obesity and cardio-metabolic health and is interested in the interactions with undernutrition and infectious diseases.
Selected publications
- Fülbert H, Zoromé S, Millogo RM, Danquah I, Herrmann A. 2025. Concepts of healthy and environmentally sustainable diets clash with a life in transition - Findings from a qualitative study in urban Burkina Faso. Glob Health Action, 2025 Dec; 18(1):2457193. Epub 2025 Feb 12. PMID: 39935418; PMCID: PMC11823391.
- Goedecke JH, Danquah I, Abidha CA, Agyemang C, Albers HM, Amoah S, Brunius C, Chorell E, Hoosen F, Fortuin-de Smidt M, Hörnsten Å, Karlsson T, Lindholm L, Mendham AE, Micklesfield LK, Meili KW, Noerman S, Otten J, Söderberg S, van der Linden EL, et al. 2025. Omics Approach for Personalised Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for African and European Populations (OPTIMA): a protocol paper. BMJ Open, 2025 Apr 22;15(4):e099108. (Open Access)
- Harrison L, Herrmann A, Quitmann C, Stieglbauer G, Zeitz C, Reininghaus U, Schick A, Danquah I. 2025. Effects of a cafeteria-based sustainable diet intervention on wellbeing at a large German hospital: a quasi-experimental study. BMC Public Health, 2025 Jun 2;25(1):2047.
- Harrison L, Reynolds E, Quitmann C, Till L, Franke B, Zeitz C, Danquah I, Herrmann A. 2025. Planetary Health Diet in einer Klinikumscafeteria: Steigerung der Mitarbeitendenzufriedenheit und Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen und Kosten. Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes, 2025 Feb; 192:77-87. German. Epub 2025 Jan 30. PMID: 39890584.
- Herrmann A, Krippl N, Fischer H, Nieder J, Griesel S, Bärnighausen T, Schildmann J, Mikolajczyk R, Danquah I, Mezger NCS, Kantelhardt EJ. 2025. Acceptability of health-only versus climate-and-health framings in lifestyle-related climate-sensitive health counselling: results of a randomised survey experiment in Germany. Lancet Planet Health, 2025 Jun;9(6):e456-e466.
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Prof. Dr. Ina Danquah (Test)
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