Prof. C.O. Agyemang PhD

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Charles Agyemang is a Professor & Principal Investigator at Amsterdam Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD from Erasmus Medical Centre, University of Rotterdam. Prior to this he studied and had his Master degree in Public Health at Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh.

Charles has over 15 years research experience in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among ethnic minority groups in Europe and has conducted numerous studies on CVD’s in low resource settings. He has authored/co-authored over 160 published papers, and edited several books. He received a prestigious VENI grant to develop international collaborative project between the Netherlands and the UK. He is a project leader and scientific coordinator of the RODAM project – European Commission funded project on gene-environmental interaction on obesity & diabetes among African migrants (http://www.rod-am.eu/), and co-investigator of the EC-funded InterConnect project (http://www.interconnect-diabetes.eu/).

Charles was a member and a rapporteur of the Planning Committee for World Health Organization (WHO) Global Consultation on Migrant Health in 2008; and a core member of the European Hypertension Society Working group on Hypertension & Cardiovascular Risk in Low Resource Settings.

Charles is currently a Vice President of the Migrant Health section of the European Public health Association (EUPHA).

Charles is also an Associate Editor for BMC Public Health, and serves on several journals as an Editorial Board member. He was a Guest Editor for Globalisation and Health on Special series: 'Africa's chronic disease burden: local and global perspectives in 2009-2010; and Guest Editor for Ethnicity & Health on Special series: ‘Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions: a global synthesis.
 

 

Prof. PhD C.O. Agyemang (Ethnic Inequalities in Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors)

The main focus of my research is on ethnic differences in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and risk factors.
Current projects:
 

1. The RODAM RODAM project (http://rod-am.eu/). This is an European Commission funded project under the Framework programme (FP-7). RODAM is a large multi-centre study and aims at assessing the role of, and the relative contribution of genetics and environmental factors to the high risk of diabetes and obesity among one homogenous African migrant group (Ghanaians) living in three European countries (The Netherlands, England and Germany) and their compatriots living in rural and urban Ghana.

2. Ethnicity and prognosis after initial hospital admission for cardiovascular disease - A follow-up study. This project is based on linkage of nationwide registers is being funded by the Netherlands Heart Foundation. This is a collaborative project between Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht Medical Centre and Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam.
 

Postdocs
MSc PhD E.J.A.J. Beune
PhD M.A. Hartman
MD PhD M.H. Zafarmand

PhD Students
MSc E. Afrifa-Anane
MSc R.B. Awuah
MSc D. Boateng

Others
L. Boateng

• P. Aovare
• B.B. Ayellah
• A.J. Bodewes
• F.P. Chilunga
• A. Doku
• C. Hayfron-Benjamin
• K.O. Juma
• J. Osei Yeboah
• P.O. Otieno
• E.L. van der Linden

• AMC (Vrijgesteld)
• Europese Unie
• Fonds NUTS-OHRA
• University of Ghana