Dr. Nicholas Adjei

Department: Prevention and Evaluation
Unit: Social Epidemiology

EDUCATION

2016 - 2019 PhD in Public Health, University of Bremen, Germany
2015 Master Degree in Demography, Stockholm University, Sweden
2010 Winter School in “Policies and Reproductive Behavior”, Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua, Italy. Invited by Professor Gianpiere Dalla Zuanna
2008 Bachelor Degree in Sociology & Social Work, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Since 2016 Doctoral Research Fellow , Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.
2013-2014 Institute for Future Studies, Sweden. Research Assistant in the “EU-FP7 AGENTA Project, Ageing Europe”: An application of National Transfer Account (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances. Project leader: Prof. Alexia Furnkranz-Prskawetz (Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna Austria).
2012-2013 Institute for Future Studies, Sweden.Research Assistant in the “National Account Project” (NTA). Project leaders: Prof. Ronald Lee (Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley, United States) and Prof. Andrew Mason (East-West center, Honolulu, Hawaii).
2008-2010 Statistical Service, Ghana. Project Officer in the “2010 Ghana Population & Housing Census project”.

Health inequalities
Gender
Ageing
Time use
Demography
Social policy
Welfare states and Comparative welfare systems

Selected BIPS-Publications

Articles with peer review
Mukora-Mutseyekwa F, Zeeb H, Nengomasha L, Adjei N. Trends in prevalence and related risk factors of overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age in Zimbabwe, 2005-2015. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019;16(15):2758.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152758
Adjei N, Brand T. Investigating the associations between productive housework activities, sleep hours and self-reported health among elderly men and women in western industrialised countries. BMC Public Health. 2018;18:110.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4979-z
Adjei N, Jonnson KR, Brand T. Time spent on work-related activities, social activities and time pressure as intermediary determinants of health disparities among elderly women and men in 5 European countries: A structural equation model. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2018;17:121.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0840-y
Adjei N, Billingsley S. Childbearing behavior before and after the 1994 population policies in Ghana. Population Research and Policy Review. 2017;36(2):251-271.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-017-9426-4
https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl%3A6421678
Adjei N, Brand T, Zeeb H. Gender inequality in self-reported health among the elderly in contemporary welfare countries: A cross-country analysis of time use activities, socioeconomic positions and family characteristics. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(9):e0184676.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184676
Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences
Adjei N, Jonsson KR, Brand T. Psychosocial determinants of health disparities among elderly women and men in Europe. 11th European Public Health Conference (EUPHA), 27 November-1 December 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Adjei N, Brand T, Zeeb H. Investigating socio-economic explanations for gender and cross-national inequalities in self-reported health among the elderly in contemporary welfare countries. International Population Conference (IPC), 29 October-4 November 2017, Cape Town, South Africa.
Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences (invited)
Adjei N, Brand T, Zeeb H. Gender inequality in health among the elderly. Public Health Conference: "Key Issues in Current Health Research: Ageing - Health - Equity", 29-30 June 2017, Bremen.