Justice Moses K. Aheto

Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Ghana
Prof. Aheto is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Biostatistics, University of Ghana (UG) with expertise and an experienced statistical consultant with over 12 years experience in the development and application of novel Statistical/Biostatistical and Epidemiological methods underpinned by mathematical modelling for investigating population health outcomes, especially malaria, maternal and child health and nutrition problems and infectious and non-communicable diseases with focus on low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) leveraging big data. He serves as Honorary Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. He also serves as a Visiting Research Fellow with the WorldPop at the University of Southampton in the UK and serves as a Visiting Scholar at the College of Public Health, University of South Florida, USA. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Gambia. He previously taught at the Lancaster University in the United Kingdom as an Associate Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics. Prof. Aheto is open to consulting opportunities and collaborations.

He received international and national awards and recognitions for his research work. He won the British Council Study UK Alumni Awards in 2024 under Science and Sustainability Category based on his exceptional research work on modelling child malnutrition and mortality in Ghana and in other low-and-middle-income countries. He also won the Best Faculty Member (Male Category) Award at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana in 2022. In 2021, Prof. Aheto was recognized as one of the Black Heroes of Operational Research by the Operational Research Society in the United Kingdom. He was also recognized as one of the University of Ghana (UG) Spotlight under the Awards/Remarkable Achievements Category in December 2021 based on his research work on Statistical and Mathematical modelling of health outcomes. He has also been recognized as an Inspirational Mathematician by The London Mathematical Society in the United Kingdom in 2017. In 2015, he was awarded an international Research Prize by The Smiths Institute in the United Kingdom. He also serves as Mathematics and Statistics Ambassador for Maths Careers and the Institute of Mathematics & Its Applications in the UK since 2015. His expertise attracted the BBC World Service to grant him an interview on his work in Modelling Child Malnutrition in 2016 which was broadcast on different BBC programmes such as ‘More or Less’, and ‘The Thought Show’ which are publicly available online.

He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles to his credit (see https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=3F6hcjcAAAAJ). He is an Editor for Health Science Reports and Guest Editor for PLOS ONE Journal. Justice continues to serve as a reviewer for several international reputed peer review journals such as Spatial Statistics, BMC Public Health, BMJ Open, Nutrients, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, PLOS ONE, Plos Global Public Health, Preventive Medicine, African Health Sciences, Gates Open Research, BMC Women’s Health, Scientific African, The Open Public Health Journal, and Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology among others. He also serves as a grant reviewer for National Research Agency – France, and National Science Centre - Poland

His educational background includes a PhD in Statistics & Epidemiology from Lancaster University in the UK and an MSc Statistics with Applications in Medicine from Southampton University in the UK. He has a BSc Statistics from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and HND Statistics from Accra Technical University, Ghana.