Charles Agyemang
Charles Agyemang
Professor of Global Migration, Ethnicity and Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, NL

Charles Agyemang is Professor of Global Migration, Ethnicity and Health and Principal Investigator at Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam; and an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. He is currently the Vice President of the Migrant Health section of the European Public health Association; Scientific Chair of the Global Society of Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health, and a fellow of the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) under the Consolidation Award programme; a member of The Lancet Racial Equality Advisory Board, World Health Organisation taskforce on NCDs in Migrants and a member of the European Academy. His research is focused on ethnic inequalities in health and non-communicable diseases (NCD) in low- and middle-income countries. He is the founder and a PI of European Commission funded RODAM study and ERC funded Pros-RODAM study (www.rod-am.eu). He is also the PI for 2 Horizon Europe projects (Generation-H & MiPiD) of the European Commission. Prof. Agyemang is a highly productive scholar with over 370 research articles, reviews and book chapters. Prof. Agyemang serves as a member on several scientific advisory boards. He is Section Editor for Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), an Associate Editor for Internal and Emergency Medicine, and serves as Guest Editor and Editorial Board member for several journals. Prof. Agyemang is passionate about training the next generation of scientists and health leaders, and he has mentored numerous undergraduate, MSc, PhDs students and postdocs in Europe and Africa.