BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1636462
Promoting Lifestyle Medicine Research in Ghana: Lessons Learned from CLiMB Ghana Hybrid Workshop
Provisionally accepted
Hibbah Osei-Kwasi1
Daniel Boateng2*
Sodey Akoto3Alice Ojwang4
Faith Agbozo5Emmanuel Assasie6Phyllis Addo5Maame Yaakwaah Blay Adjei6
Victor Mogre7
Robert Akparibo8
Richmond Nii Okai Aryeetey6
Andrew Levy9
Brenda Abu10Sophia D Amenyah11
Dorotheah Obiri3
Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor12
Ines Varela-Silva1
Paula Griffiths1Amanda J Daley1- 1Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
- 2Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- 3Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
- 4Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
- 5School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Volta, Ghana
- 6University of Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- 7University for Development Studies, Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana
- 8The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
- 9Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom
- 10Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York, United States
- 11Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, United Kingdom
- 12Department of Community Health, Ensign Global College, Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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The rapid rise in urbanisation across many African countries is contributing to the increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in both adults and children and presents a significant challenge to health services across the continent.In May 2023, a two-day workshop was held in Ghana, coordinated by the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB) at Loughborough University and in collaboration with partners from three Ghanaian Universities. The workshop brought together academics, clinicians, public health specialists and civil society organisations from Ghana, UK, France, the Netherlands, the USA, and Kenya. Our main objective was to identify scalable lifestyle interventions to address the growing burden of NCDs in Ghana.The two-day workshop focused on identifying salient research priorities for the prevention of NCDs. The immediate research priorities outlined were 1) conduct observational research in Ghana to identify feasible dietary and physical activity changes to reduce NCDs; 2) undertake a Delphi Study to -prioritise a research agenda on NCDs, focusing on lifestyle behaviours and involving researchers, policymakers, and implementers; 3) perform a comprehensive mapping and
Keywords: nutritition, Lifesty1e, physical activity, Ghana, Non-comunicable disease
Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 31 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Osei-Kwasi, Boateng, Akoto, Ojwang, Agbozo, Assasie, Addo, Blay Adjei, Mogre, Akparibo, Aryeetey, Levy, Abu, Amenyah, Obiri, Boatemaa Kushitor, Varela-Silva, Griffiths and Daley. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Daniel Boateng, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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