Professor Nana Anokye
Divisional Lead / Professor - Health Economics
Mary Seacole 2nd Floor
- Email: nana.anokye@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266662
- Global Public Health
- Department of Health Sciences
Summary
Nana is the Director of Division of Global Public Health at the within the College of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences.
Nana's work on Economics of Physical Activity has been used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to formulate three national public health guidelines on , and .
He has quantified how influence behaviour change.
Having won the for Research Impact, further secured prestigious UK Department of Health funding to conduct the first ever English general population survey on the economics of physical activity.
His interests in public health are wide-ranging. How can improve health outcomes; whether financial incentives improve ; and what the link between shopping vouchers and may be, are some of the public health questions Nana is keen to answer.
As an ardent gym goer himself, his quest for knowledge led him to investigate whether physical activity was any more independent from behaviour.
Nana is Chair of ISPAH LMIC Council and a member of the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) College of Experts. As Institute of Leadership and Management certified coach and mentor and a former broadcast journalist, Nana is passionate about communicating research and supporting research careers through podcasts – the , which he co-founded with colleagues.
Nana has a PhD in Health Economics (Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ), an MSc in Environmental Resources Management from Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and, a BA in Economics and Sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana).
Responsibility
Director, Division of Global Public Health
Course Director, MSc Public Health and Health Promotion
Coordinator, Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ Global Public Health Academy
Newest selected publications
Banstola, A., Anokye, N. and Pokhrel, S. (2024) ''. PLOS ONE, 19 (5). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 1932-6203
Lima dos Santos, L., Codogno, JS., Camilo Turi-Lynch, B., Araujo, MYC., Fernandes, RA., de Oliveira Gomes, GA., et al. (2023) ''. BMC Primary Care, 24 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2731-4553
Banstola, A., Pokhrel, S., Hayhoe, B., Nicholls, D., Harris, M. and Anokye, N. (2023) ''. BMJ Open, 13 (2). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 2044-6055
da Guarda, FRB., Silvestre Rodrigues, BL., Niels da Silva, R., Martins de Faria, SJ., Costa Silva, PB., da Silva Júnior, RE., et al. (2023) ''. Cadernos de saude publica, 39 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0102-311X
Otis, M., Barber, S., Green Hofer, S., Straus, J., Kay, M., Hargreaves, DS., et al. (2023) ''. BMJ Open, 13 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2044-6055