Professor Nana Anokye
Divisional Lead / Professor - Health Economics
Mary Seacole 2nd Floor
- Email: nana.anokye@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266662
- Global Public Health
- Department of Health Sciences
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Summary
Nana is the Director of Division of Global Public Health at the Department of Health Sciences within the College of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences.
Nana's work on Economics of Physical Activity has been used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to formulate three national public health guidelines on exercise referral schemes, and brief advice for adults in primary care.
He has quantified how time and money prices influence behaviour change.
Having won the Walduck Prize for Research Impact, Nana’s work further secured prestigious UK Department of Health funding to conduct the first ever English general population survey on the economics of physical activity.
His interests in public health are wide-ranging. How primary care can improve health outcomes; whether financial incentives improve maternal and child health; and what the link between shopping vouchers and breastfeeding may be, are some of the public health questions Nana is keen to answer.
As an ardent gym goer himself, his quest for knowledge led him to investigate whether physical activity was any more independent from sedentary behaviour.
Nana is Chair of ISPAH LMIC Council and a member of the Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) College of Experts. As Institute of Leadership and Management certified coach and mentor and a former broadcast journalist, Nana is passionate about communicating research and supporting research careers through podcasts – the Research Life, which he co-founded with colleagues.
Nana has a PhD in Health Economics (Brunel), an MSc in Environmental Resources Management from Brandenburg University of Technology (Germany) and, a BA in Economics and Sociology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana).
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Responsibility
Director, Division of Global Public Health
Course Director, MSc Public Health and Health Promotion
Coordinator, Brunel Global Public Health Academy
Newest selected publications
Banstola, A., Anokye, N. and Pokhrel, S. (2024) 'The economic burden of multimorbidity: Protocol for a systematic review'. PLOS ONE, 19 (5). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 1932-6203 Open Access Link
Lima dos Santos, L., Codogno, JS., Camilo Turi-Lynch, B., Araujo, MYC., Fernandes, RA., de Oliveira Gomes, GA., et al. (2023) 'Interrelationship between arterial hypertension, health service costs, therapeutic treatment and physical activity'. BMC Primary Care, 24 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2731-4553 Open Access Link
Banstola, A., Pokhrel, S., Hayhoe, B., Nicholls, D., Harris, M. and Anokye, N. (2023) 'Economic evaluations of interventional opportunities for the management of mental-physical multimorbidity: a systematic review'. BMJ Open, 13 (2). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 2044-6055 Open Access Link
da Guarda, FRB., Silvestre Rodrigues, BL., Niels da Silva, R., Martins de Faria, SJ., Costa Silva, PB., da Silva Júnior, RE., et al. (2023) 'Impact of the Health Gym Program on hospital admissions for stroke in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil'. Cadernos de saude publica, 39 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0102-311X Open Access Link
Otis, M., Barber, S., Green Hofer, S., Straus, J., Kay, M., Hargreaves, DS., et al. (2023) 'Evaluating the implementation and impact of a new model of care for integrating children and young people's acute mental healthcare in a paediatric setting: A protocol for a realist, mixed-methods approach'. BMJ Open, 13 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2044-6055 Open Access Link