Presenter

Augustine Appah Acquah is a final year PhD Candidate at the Department of Biological Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana. Augustine's research interest is in Occupational Health, specifically in ergonomics and work-related musculoskeletal disorders. His PhD research focuses on developing ergonomic assessment methods that can be adopted to unstructured/informal work such as electronic waste recycling and other non-repetitive type of work. The research also investigates how the newly developed assessment methods can be used in future studies to estimate the risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders among electronic waste recyclers in Ghana. His research forms part of a collaborative study between the University of Ghana and the University of Michigan. His educational background is in Physical Therapy (BSc) and Human anatomy (MPhil) from the University of Ghana, as well as Orthopaedic Trauma Sciences (MSc) from Queen Mary University of London. He has been practising as a physical therapist in Ghana since 2011 and has also been involved in teaching and training of Physical Therapists at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. Augustine hopes to become a leading researcher in ergonomics and promote the practise and teaching of ergonomics in Ghana and the rest of the world.