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Dr. Ahmed Tijani Bawah is the Dean of the school of Allied Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tamale Technical University, Tamale in Ghana. He is also a Senior Lecturer of Chemical Pathology at the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, School of Allied Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Prior to this, he was the Registration and Examination officer of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana. He has previously worked at the Ghana Health Service and Ministry of Health, Ghana. Dr. Bawah is a fellow of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists and a registered Allied Health Professional.
Dr. Bawah holds a PhD (Chemical Pathology) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, MPhil (Chemical Pathology) and Bachelor of Science (Medical laboratory Science) from the University of Ghana. He obtained a certificate and a Diploma in Medical Laboratory Sciences from the School of Medical Laboratory Technology, Korle-Bu and University of Ghana Medical School respectively.
Dr. Bawah has thought for many years and helped developed curricula for training of Medical Laboratory professionals in both undergraduate and post graduate programmes. He served as the chairman of the committee that developed the MLS.D curriculum for the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho. He practiced as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in various health facilities in the Greater Accra region for almost fifteen (15) years. During this period, he rose from the rank of Technical Officer Grade 2 to a Principal Biomedical Laboratory Scientist before he resigned from the of Health in 2013.
Dr. Bawah’s area of research is metabolic complications during pregnancy with emphasis on using biochemical markers in the prediction of obstetric outcome. He has also done some research in diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney diseases. He has publications on lipid profile of Ghanaian women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Hypogonadism in Ghanaian men with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Adipokine dysregulations in Ghanaian women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Preeclampsia among others. Other publications are on the effect of Tobacco smoking on semen quality and sexual dysfunction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity as well as diabetes and chronic diseases among homeless people in Ghana. Dr. Bawah is a data contributor for the Gestational Weight Gain Pooling Project of Bill and Melinda gate foundation in collaboration with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Knowledge interrogation (Ki) team. He currently has over Twenty-Nine (29) publications.
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ORCID: ID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0727-9986