Research Experiences

Knust Research Assistantship Position with Dr. Edmund I. Yamba (2022-2024)

Worked on Climate-based distribution of seasonal malaria transmission over Ghana.

• Investigated the current and future distribution of malaria in Ghana under extreme case climate change scenarios namely: RCP 2.6 and RCP 8.5.
• Used modelled data from ICTP RegCM4 and HadGEM2 RCM and GCM outputs and CHIRPS, ERA-5, and CRU products. Implemented the VECTRI model by the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

Worked on Impacts of global warming: Rethinking Sustainable Development Goals.

• Examining the rate of warming in the northern regions of Ghana and their effects on health and livelihood.

Worked on Mapping seasonal malaria transmission risk, a function of climate and environment using entomological indices of Temperature on the Vectorial Capacity of Malaria.

• Reviewed current literature and discovered setbacks in available research works.
• Implemented Python-based techniques to compute the vectorial capacity and the survival probabilities.

KNUST JNAA Research Lab with Dr. Jefferey Aryee (September 2020-2022)

Worked on Using multiple drought metrics to assess climatic drought and floods.

• Extracted, explored, and processed 100GB gridded data computed the RAI, SAI, and SPI.
• Examined the efficacy of gridded precipitation datasets namely; CRU, CHIRPS, and GPCC in predicting drought and flood occurrences using several drought metrics.
• Computed the RAI, SAI, and SPI-3 on the gridded and observed datasets.