Robert Akparibo BSc, MSc, MPH

School of Health and Related Research
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

Office:   Innovation Centre, Floor 1.

Tel: +44 (0) 114 2226389
Fax: +44 (0) 114 2226389

email:    R.Akparibo@sheffield.ac.uk

I am currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant, alongside pursuing my PhD in Public Health at the University of Sheffield, UK.  I am based at the Section of Public Health and Related Research (ScHARR).

Prior to starting my PhD I have worked as a Public Health and Nutrition specialist in various governmental and Nongovernmental organisations including the Ghana Health Service and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in Ghana, the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health, Helen Keller International (Burkina) and Family Health International in Senegal all in West Africa.  I have also worked as Research Associate with the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe in Denmark.

Research Interests   

My research interests include maternal and child health and nutrition in middle and low income countries.

Teaching Interests

Currently, I take part in teaching the research method, key issues in global health and project management and leadership modules of the ScHARR Master of Public Health programme.

Professional Activities

Member of British and African Nutrition Societies

Current Projects

My current research project addresses nutrition and child survival in Ghana.  The research adopts a mixed method research approach to explore the effectiveness of community-based/outpatients' care in the treatment of severe acute malnutrition among children under age five years of age.

 Key Publications

Akparibo R, Dryden C, Blank L.
Effect of consumption of plumpy'nut on weight, height and muscle mass gain during recovery from severe acute malnutrition among children under five years. 
(2010) Abstract publication at African nutrition society, October 2010.

Akparibo R. 
Gender Based Violence and HIV transmission in Africa the way forward:  Special edition, Bulletin of Africa Millennium Women Initiatitive for poverty reduction.
(2006) Dakar Senegal.

Akparibo, R.
Exercise and our health: - A public Health concern.
Northern Health Journal for development NGO's, Ghana. Vol. 3 June 2003

Akparibo R.
Soybean as source of food:  The need to advocate for its production.
Northern Health Journal for development NGOs, Ghana.
(2004) June, vol.3.

Akparibo R.
(2002) Associations between Exclusive Breastfeeding and Malaria, Diarrhea and Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children below 3 years of age in the Tamale Municipality of the Northern Region of Ghana (unpublished).