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• Artificial Intelligence · Financial Systems

  Can transaction histories improve credit-risk modelling where conventional credit data is limited?

  Benjamin Ekow Attabra

  Benjamin is comparing sequential models with conventional credit-risk approaches using mobile financial-service transaction histories. His work examines whether preserving the order of transactions can improve how repayment risk is distinguished in data-constrained settings.

• Artificial Intelligence · Agriculture

  Can AI diagnose crop pests and diseases from text when labelled data is scarce?

  Essel-Biney Nana Benyin Eboe Nyamekye

  Nana is comparing few-shot learning approaches for text-based diagnosis of pests and diseases affecting maize, tomato and cassava. The research examines how useful agricultural AI can be built when large labelled datasets are not available.

• Artificial Intelligence · Public Health

  Can pneumonia screening run safely on small devices without reliable internet access?

  McGovern Twumasi Owusu-Bekoe

  McGovern developed OnEdge-Net, a compact model for offline pneumonia screening and triage from chest X-rays in low-resource clinical settings. His research also examines what happens when models are compressed for deployment on small devices and how potentially unsafe changes in predictions can be identified.

• Artificial Intelligence · African Data

  How can movement in Ampe be documented for computational research and preservation?

  Ruth Biney Senior

  Ruth is developing machine-readable data from the Ghanaian game Ampe, documenting movement during gameplay so it can be studied computationally and preserved as a source for future research.

• Climate · Oceans & Fisheries

  How quickly are Ghana's coastal waters warming, and what could that mean for marine fisheries?

  Lord Selase Nukporfe

  Lord studied sea-surface temperature across Ghana's Exclusive Economic Zone from 1981 to 2025, examining long-term warming, seasonal differences and variation across coastal zones. The work considers what changing ocean temperatures could mean for marine conditions and fish availability.

• Climate · Climate Intelligence

  What could longer dry periods mean for Ghana's food and water security?

  Solomon Tuah

  Solomon is studying projected consecutive dry days over Ghana and what changes in dry periods could mean for agriculture, water security and adaptation planning.

• Public Health · Environmental Health

  Who is most at risk of lead poisoning?

  Brianna Ama Nyarkowaa Donkoh

  Brianna is using existing data to identify groups at greater risk of lead poisoning and examine how prevention efforts could be better targeted.

• Public Health · Maternal & Child Health

  How are maternal mental health and early caregiving related to children's behavioural development in Ghana?

  Linda Akosua Essilfie

  Linda is studying the relationships between maternal depression and anxiety, caregiving responsiveness and child behavioural development in Ghana. Her work considers how maternal psychological wellbeing and the quality of early caregiving relate to children's emotional and developmental outcomes.

• Public Health · Disease & Prevention

  Does more integrated HIV-TB care lead to better patient outcomes?

  Character Dzorgbenyuie Aku Forfoe

  Character examined HIV-TB service integration in Ghana, including its relationship with diagnostic delays, treatment adherence and patient outcomes. The study also considers barriers such as fragmented services, referral systems, workforce constraints and weak health-information links.

• Public Health · Population Health

  How are ageing and related risk factors shaping obesity among Ghanaian adults?

  Samuel Larbi

  Samuel is studying ageing, obesity and related risk factors among Ghanaian adults, with relevance to the growing burden of non-communicable disease.