Joshua holds a PhD in Population and Health, and his work and expertise are in public health. He has considerable experience in collaborative, large-scale, multi-year, multi-country research; project management and implementation; and higher education engagements and partnerships.
Joshua is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population & Health and the Vice Dean of the Office of International Relations at the University of Cape Coast until December 2025. In this role, he successfully supervised numerous research capacity strengthening activities at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional levels. He has strong expertise in designing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies. Joshua served as a postdoctoral researcher and associate research scientist at the African Population and Health Research Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2016 to 2018
As the Vice-Dean of International Relations at UCC (August 2024—Dec 2025), Joshua has experience managing higher-education partnerships. He coordinates the Study Abroad and Erasmus+ scholars programme on behalf of the University. He has received training in internationalisation and university engagement, most recently at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and the University of Basilicata, Italy.
Joshua has also served in high-level international technical advisory roles: (1) temporary advisor to the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group and (2) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Family Planning Impact Consortium (FP-Impact) under the auspices of Guttmacher Institute (New York) and Africa Institute for Development and Policy (AFIDEP), Malawi.
Joshua has led several primary research, monitoring and evaluation activities funded by organizations such as UNDP Ghana, FHI360/USAID ASBC, HRP/WHO Geneva, UNFPA ESARO, UNFPA Ghana, UNICEF Ghana, Edinburgh Innovations Limited (University of Edinburgh, UK), IFC Macro, US, Ipas Ghana, DKT International Inc., Ghana, PPAG/IPPF, and the Family Health Division of Ghana Health Service. These pieces of work demonstrate Joshua’s ability to navigate and lead in the complex landscape of public and global health issues.
In addition to subject-matter expertise, he is skilled in using software for qualitative (NVivo) and quantitative (Stata) data management and analysis. Intermittently, he trains early-career researchers on using STATA and NVivo to strengthen their research capacity.
