Mr. Kofi Akodwaa-Boadi

Academic Qualifications

  • MSc. Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation (2010-2012) Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
  • BSc. Chemistry University of Cape Coast (2005-2009)                  

Role and Responsibility

  • Assistant Lecturer

  • Teaching, Research and Service                  

Address

Department of Environmental Health and Sanitation Education, Faculty of Environment and Health Education, College of Agric, P.O Box 40, Mampong-Asante.

 

Contact

  • Phone – 0240250416
  • Email – kofiakodwaaboadi@yahoo.com

Department

  • Department of Environmental Health and Sanitation Education

Faculty

  • FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH EDUCATION

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

I am an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Health and Sanitation Education. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana and a Master of Science degree in Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Additionally, I have professional training in project management, monitoring and evaluation from the Maastricht School of Management in Netherlands.  I have substantial teaching experience having been a teaching assistant at the University of Cape Coast and a part-time Lecturer at the Institute of Distance Learning, KNUST.

I served as the foundation Centre Manager of the Regional Water and Environmental Sanitation Centre Kumasi (RWESCK), a World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence at KNUST from 2016 to 2021. Also, from 2012-2016, I was the International Consortium Manager of the Scientists Networked for Outcomes from Water and Sanitation (SNOWS) Consortium, an international capacity-building network with partners from University of East Anglia (UK), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), University of Gezira (Sudan), University of Venda (South Africa), Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa), Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Uganda) and Egerton University (Kenya).  In total, my grant portfolio is over Seventeen Million United States Dollars (US$17,000,000.00) having worked on projects funded by the World Bank, Wellcome Trust and the German Ministry of Education and Research. I have organized and facilitated several national and regional stakeholder consultative meetings and workshops in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Currently, a member of the Board of Directors of Vision Fund Ghana, a subsidiary of World Vision International and also the Project Lead for Trash-Innovate, a business start-up that specializes in digital technologies for WASH services.

My research interests are in Water Quality and Modelling, Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment and Environmental Health Protection.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
  • African Membrane Society
  • Young Water Professionals
  • Rural Water Supply Network
  • Project Management Institute
  • African Evaluators Association
TEACHING INTERESTS
  • Water Quality and Analysis
  • Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Supply and Distribution
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Climate Chemistry
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SUPERVISION

I am interested in Water Quality and Modelling, Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment and Environmental Health Protection. I am interested in supervising students on research areas including but not limited to drinking water quality, water safety planning, water quality modelling, membrane technologies and in institutional arrangement for the management of water, sanitation and hygiene services

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Appiah, B., Poudyal, A., Anum, D.A., Appiah, G., Wesuta, A.C., Akodwaa-Boadi, K., Ogodo, O., Nakkazi, E., Mulogo, E.M. and Odai, S.N. (2020). Challenges and facilitators of public engagement with water, sanitation, hygiene and other environmental health issues in Ghana and Uganda: perspectives of scientists, journalists and the public. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 10(1), pp.16-26.

  • Akodwaa-Boadi K., Buamah R., Baah-Ennumh E.K. (2015). The Impact of Residual Chlorine Decay on Water quality in a Piped Network – A laboratory scale test. American International Journal of Research in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Issue 11 (Vol 1) ISSN (Print): 2328-3491, ISSN (Online): 2328-3580

  • Buamah R., Akodwaa-Boadi K., Paintsil M., Baah-Ennumh E. K., Adjaotor A.A. (2014).  Modeling the chlorine decay process in a distribution network using a pilot system. Water Practice & Technology, Vol 9 No 4 doi:10.2166/wpt.2014.060 Pg 335-350

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • Nadutey A., Acheampong E., Akodwaa-Boadi K., Anthony K.A., Mprah W.K. (2017). Menstrual Hygiene Management: Knowledge and Practices among female adolescents with disability in Kumasi. 5th AFRINEAD and 6th College of Health Science Scientific conference, Ghana

  • Akodwaa-Boadi K., R. Buamah, Baah-Ennumh E. K, M. Paintsil Modelling and simulating free chlorine decay using a pilot distribution system. (2013). Book of Abstracts Maiden Conference for early career scientists working in Africa, South Africa

  • Akodwaa-Boadi K., R. Buamah, Baah-Ennumh E.K. (2013). Urbanization and Health – Systems Approaches. Urbanization and Health Training Workshop, United Nations University–International Institute for Global Health, Malaysia

OTHERS

Awards    

  • 2019 Japanese Government/World Bank, Participant – 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7) and university-university/university-industry partnership workshops conference, Japan
  • 2019 DANIDA, Participant – Professional Programme in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Ghana
  • 2014 Recipient, Malaysian Technical Co-operation Programme award for short-term course training in Urbanization and Health – Systems Approaches, Malaysia