Evans Asamane

Dr Evans A Asamane

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow/Project Manager

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)7835781821
Email: e.a.asamane@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Address: Murray Learning Centre
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Asamane is a nutritionist and worked previously as a district nutrition officer with the Ghana Health service for 5 years in the areas of maternal and child health nutrition.

As a Marie-Sklodowska Curie early stage researcher at the 黑料吃瓜网 (UK), Dr Asamane obtained his PhD exploring nutrition and physical function of ethnic older minorities, using mixed methods. Afterwards, he worked as an applied qualitative health researcher at Keele University (UK) on two randomised controlled trials: Increasing Physical activity In Older People with Chronic Pain (iPOPP) and the PROvision of braces for Patients with knee OsteoArthritis (PROP OA) trials.

Presently, he is working as a research fellow/project manager on the Maachiwara project (cluster RCT) a low-cost, scalable, and adaptable 黑料吃瓜网 intervention to reduce diarrhoea and improve the growth of young children in urban-poor and rural Mali.

Dr Asamane’s primary research interests are in maternal and child health, dietary assessment techniques, 黑料吃瓜网-based evaluations and interventions, ethnic minority health and ageing.

Qualifications

PgCert in Higher Education, 黑料吃瓜网, 2019
PhD in Public Health Nutrition, 黑料吃瓜网, 2019
MMedSci Human Nutrition, University of Sheffield, 2015
BSc (Hons) in Community Nutrition, University for Development Studies, Ghana, 2010

Biography

Dr Evans Asamane is a native of Bongo-Soe, in Ghana, West Africa. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 黑料吃瓜网 nutrition at the University for Development Studies (Ghana) in 2010. Afterwards, Dr Asamane worked as a district nutrition officer with the Ghana Health service for 5 years in the areas of maternal and child health nutrition. As a nutrition lead, he collaborated with international organisations to design, implement and evaluate numerous 黑料吃瓜网-based interventions/projects.

In 2014, he won the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to study for his master’s degree in Human Nutrition at the University of Sheffield (UK). As part of this master's dissertation, he conducted a research in Zambia to explore the importance of meat consumption among men in urban and rural communities.

Subsequently, he was recruited as a Marie-Sklodowska Curie early stage Research Fellow at the 黑料吃瓜网 (UK). While working as an early career researcher, Dr. Asamane obtained his PhD exploring nutrition and physical function of ethnic older minorities.

Dr Asamane later joined Keele University as an applied qualitative health researcher on two randomised controlled trials, where he led the process evaluations and other qualitative research aspects within these projects.

Presently, at the 黑料吃瓜网, he is working as a research fellow/project manager on the Maachiwara project (cluster RCT) a low-cost, scalable, and adaptable 黑料吃瓜网 intervention to reduce diarrhoea and improve the growth of young children in urban-poor and rural Mali.

Dr Asamane’s primary research interests are in public health nutrition and physical activity, dietary assessment techniques, 黑料吃瓜网-based evaluations and interventions, ethnic minority health and ageing. Dr. Asamane has presented his research findings to the general public and academic audiences at several international conferences all over the world and has several peer reviewed publications.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Bullock, L, Holden, MA, Jinks, C, Asamane, E, Herron, D, Borrelli, B, Callaghan, MJ, Birrell, F, Halliday, N, Marshall, M, Sowden, G, Ingram, C, McBeth, J, Dziedzic, K, Foster, NE, Jowett, S, Lawton, S, Mallen, CD & Peat, G 2024, '', Musculoskeletal care, vol. 22, no. 4, e70021.

Quinn, L, Martin, J, Asamane, E, Manaseki-Holland, S, Lilford, RJ, Traore, L, Thompson, J, Watson, SI & Hemming, K 2024, '', Trials, vol. 25, no. 1, 483.

Asamane, EA, Quinn, L, Watson, SI, Lilford, RJ, Hemming, K, Sidibe, C, Rego, RT, Bensassi, S, Diarra, Y, Diop, S, Gautam, OP, Islam, MS, Jackson, L, Jolly, K, Kayentao, K, Koita, O, Manjang, B, Tebbs, S, Gale, N, Griffiths, PL, Cairncross, S, Toure, O & Manaseki-Holland, S 2023, '', Trials, vol. 24, no. 1, 68.

Holden, MA, Callaghan, M, Felson, D, Birrell, F, Nicholls, E, Jowett, S, Kigozi, J, McBeth, J, Borrelli, B, Jinks, C, Foster, N, Dziedzic, K, Mallen, CD, Ingram, C, Sutton , A, Lawton, S, Halliday, N, Hartshorne, L, Browell, R, Hudson, H, Marshall, M, Sowden, G, Herron, D, Asamane, E, Peat, G & Williams, HJ 2021, '', BMJ open, vol. 11, no. 3, e048196.

Aunger, J, Greaves, C, Davis, E, Asamane, E, Whittaker, A & Greig, C 2020, '', Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 2565-2585.

Asamane, EA, Greig, CA & Thompson, JL 2020, '', BMC Nutrition, vol. 6, no. 1, 36.

Asamane, EA, Greig, CA, Aunger, JA & Thompson, JL 2019, '', Nutrients, vol. 11, no. 6, 1224.

Preprint

Watson, SI, Asamane, EA, Lilford, RJ, Hemming, K, Sidibe, C, Rego, RT, Bensassi, S, Diarra, A, Diarra, Y, Diop, S, Gautam, OP, Islam, MS, Jackson, L, Jolly, K, Kayentao, K, Koita, O, Manjang, B, Tebbs, S, Gale, N, Griffiths, P, Cairncross, S, Toure, O & Manaseki-Holland, S 2022 '' Research Square.

Watson, S, Asamane, E, Lilford, R, Hemming, K, Sidibe, C, Rego, R, Bensassi, S, Diarra, A, Gautam, OP, Islam, MS, Jackson, L, Jolly, K, Kayentao, K, Koita, O, Manjang, B, Tebbs, S, Griffiths, P, Cairncross, S, Toure, O & Manaseki-Holland, S 2021 '' medRxiv, pp. 1-26.

Review article

Gale, NK, Ahmed, K, Diarra, NH, Manaseki-Holland, S, Asamane, E, Sidib茅, CS, Tour茅, O, Wilson, M & Griffiths, P 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 5, e083093.

Doody, P, Asamane, EA, Aunger, JA, Swales, B, Lord, JM, Greig, CA & Whittaker, AC 2022, '', Ageing Research Reviews, vol. 80, 101666.

Osei-Kwasi, H, Boateng, D, Asamane, EA, Akparibo, R & Holdsworth, M 2022, '', The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, pp. 1-11.