Dr. Adom Manu is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Public Health with over 20 years’ experience in field research, spanning diverse studies in different domains. He has a broad background in adolescent health with abilities in quantitative and qualitative research.

Adom has been Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator of several projects with successful collaboration with researchers from America and Europe. His research interests cover a wide spectrum of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH), including teenage pregnancy, child marriage, and adolescent mental health. He was the in-country PI for an ASRH stigma study that led to the development and validation of a ground-breaking scale for measuring ASRH stigma. He has published extensively, with 63 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Manu is also a Co-PI and the Postgraduate Training Director for the World Health Organization/ Human Reproduction Program Alliance Hub scholarship scheme, that trains and strengthens individuals and institutional capacity in sexual and reproductive health in the Anglophone African region. He has extensive experience in training the younger generation of public health specialists with a focus on adolescent health. To date, he has supervised and successfully graduated nearly 70 postgraduate students, including 7 doctoral candidates. He is a member of the Africa Research, Implementation Science and Education (ARISE) Network. He is the in-country PI for the DASH network’s multi-country adolescent health intervention and policies project, as part of the Research Networks for Health Innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Currently, he is a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Ohio University, with the Global Health Initiative.

This event is part of the Africa@OHIO Spring Series, hosted by African Studies.