Dr Dickson A. Amugsi is a senior public health researcher at the African Population and Health Research Center (Kenya). He is also a senior collaborator on the Global Burden of Disease study at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the University of Washington (USA). Previously, he held positions as a research fellow, senior research officer/clinical research coordinator, and assistant research officer at the Navrongo Health Research Centre (Ghana).
Besides his research, Dr Amugsi serves as an editor/editorial board member for several journals, including PLOS Global Public Health, Archives of Public Health, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, Academia Medicine and Health, International Journal for Equity in Health, Frontiers in Medicine, BMC Public Health, and BMC Global and Public Health.
Dr Amugsi holds a PhD in International Public Health from the University of Bergen (Norway), and a double Master’s degree in International Health from University College London (UK), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), and the University of Bergen (Norway). He earned his bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Ghana, Legon. Additionally, he has obtained certificates in implementation research, and nutritional epidemiology and biostatistics from the WHO and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, respectively.
Dr Amugsi’s research interests encompass maternal and child health, public health and nutrition epidemiology, the burden of diseases and their risk factors, childcare and feeding practices, dietary diversity, communicable and non-communicable diseases, obesity, child growth, and anaemia. He has published extensively on these subjects in high-impact international peer-reviewed journals, utilising data from Africa and across the globe. His research has been cited by tens of thousands of researchers worldwide. In recognition of his contributions, he was ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University (USA) in collaboration with Elsevier for three consecutive years (2023, 2024, and 2025).
