University of Ghana Nutrition Research and Training Center

Jane Appiaduah Odei

Jane Appiaduah Odei

Jane Appiaduah Odei is a doctoral student at the University of Ghana, Nutrition and Food Science Department. Her current research is focused on non-communicable diseases among school-aged children in Ghana. She holds an MPhil student in the same department and worked on factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding of Ghanaian twins where she found that mothers with twins exclusively breastfed far less than mothers with singleton babies. This discovery strengthened her resolve to support and encourage mothers with infants and young children, especially those with twins, to persevere in exclusive breastfeeding despite challenges that may come up. She has interests in maternal, infant, and young child research and intervention research to curb non-communicable diseases in children.