Dr. Bernard Appiah, assistant professor in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Appiah is also the Director of the Centre for Science and Health Communication, a nonprofit based in Ghana, with a mission of promoting public engagement with science and health issues. He is involved in two main programs: a project to help environmental researchers engage the media in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom (as principal investigator); and 2) the AuthorAID project of INASP, United Kingdom, which provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries to publish and otherwise communicate their research. In these roles, he combines his communication expertise in research, teaching, and service.