Amos Laar
MPH, MA, PhD
Dr. Laar has academic training in Nutrition, Public Health, and Bioethics. In his independent scholarship, he draws on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological perspectives from the social sciences, bioethics, and public health to understand how physical environment, social environment, as well as structural forces affect health. Currently, his research focuses on two distinct, yet related areas of public health – bioethics (ethics & public health; health & human rights, food ethics, & nutrition rights); public health nutrition (food literacy, nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, and the nexus between food environment and health).
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Predatory marketing of unhealthy foods to children is unethical, should be made illegal in Ghana
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Why should the Ghanaian youth be interested in the implementation of the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax?
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Ghana needs to prioritize food environments and make them healthier
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Accra-based retailers call the food they sell “Junk”. A recent academic report
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