Akua Quao

Akua is our Course Leader for MSc Applied Public Health online delivery. She also teaches, module leads and supervises dissertations on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Akua is a public health practitioner with over 20 years of experience in health communications and training. Her track record includes developing and managing interventions which focus on awareness raising, influencing behaviour change and minimising the impact of social and health inequalities.

Akua has worked in professional roles using training, copywriting and broadcasting skills to manage media and training projects. For example, for Burson Marstellar, Department for Works & Pensions, RBE Associates, Royal Society for Public Health and GlaxoSmithKline. Akua has been responsible for the course design and teaching of accredited Health Trainer and Health Champions programmes for local authorities, NHS Trusts and Premier League football clubs in London.

She worked as a senior radio producer on health programmes, broadcast on commercial radio stations in the South East, as well as syndicated programmes across university student radio stations. Akua has co-authored award-winning health promotion material with the Terrence Higgins Trust.

For over 10 years, Akua has been teaching in Further and Higher education, sharing her expertise with students who are keen to develop their knowledge and skills on how to apply theory into practice.

Royal Society for Public Health Fellow-FRSPH
Public health practitioner assessor for the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR)
Member of Institute of Health Promotion and Education-MIHPE
Member of International Union for Health Promotion and Education
Member of the Royal Society for Public Health Behaviour Change Special Interest Group
Member of The Collaborative and Participatory Methodological Special Interest Group

Conference presentation at 24th International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World Conference on Health Promotion (May 2022).
Synthesis speaker at International Health Promoting Campuses Symposium (May 2022).
Chair of Parallel Session- at 6th International Authenticity to Action Conference, UK.
Conference presentation at International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges (2015), Okanagan, Canada.
Conference presentation at Afro-European Conference on Integration, (2001) Stockholm, Sweden.

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