Ina Danquah is the Hertz-Chair for “Innovation for Planetary Health” in the Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) “Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Futures” and a member of the three-person executive board at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn (since October 2023).

Ina Danquah is a nutritionist specialized in population health research (epidemiology). Since 2019, Danquah has been conducting research on the interactions between climate change, nutrition, and health. In her work, she draws on the concept of sustainable diets that are healthy, climate- and environmentally friendly, culturally acceptable, and affordable. Danquah develops, implements, and tests adaptation strategies to address the impacts of climate change in the Global South. She also uses participatory approaches to design, implement, and evaluate climate protection measures in the food sector that provide additional health benefits. As a nutritional epidemiologist, Danquah conducts research to characterize the dietary behavior of populations in sub-Saharan Africa and migrants in Europe. She investigates the dietary links with obesity and cardiometabolic health and is interested in the interactions with undernutrition and infectious diseases.

Danquah leads the DFG-funded Research Group “Climate Change and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa” and is co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project “Changemaker” on sustainable health interventions for adolescents in urban areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Ina Danquah studied nutritional science at the University of Potsdam and the University of Ghana, earned her Ph.D. at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and obtained an MSc in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Her work combines nutrition science, epidemiology, global and planetary health, and sustainability, with a recurring focus on making nutrition healthier for both people and the planet.

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Clara Bergmann, Gabriel Kallah-Dagadu, Eva van der Linden, Karlijn AC Meeks, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Mary Nicolaou , Peter Henneman, Silver Bahendeka , Erik Beune , Charles Agyemang, Ina Danquah. 2026. Sustainable diets and cardiometabolic conditions among Ghanaian adults under transition: findings from the RODAM-Pros Cohort Study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 124, Issue 4.

Harrison L, Herrmann A, Quitmann C, Stieglbauer G, Zeitz C, Franke B, Danquah I. 2024. Effects of a cafeteria-based sustainable diet intervention on the adherence to the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet and greenhouse gas emissions of consumers: a quasi-experimental study at a large German hospital. Nutrition Journal 23.

Okekunle AP, Nicolaou M, De Allegri M, et al., Danquah I. 2024. A multi-dimensional Sustainable Diet Index (SDI) for Ghanaian adults under transition: the RODAM Study. Nutrition Journal 23(1): 117.

Herrmann A, Gonnet A, Millogo RM, et al., Danquah I. 2023. Sustainable dietary weight loss intervention and its effects on cardiometabolic parameters and greenhouse gas emissions: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial with overweight and obese adults in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. BMJ Open 13(4): e070524.



Danquah I. 2022. Felder mit Aktionsspielraum für ein nachhaltiges Krankenhaus – Speisenversorgung. In: Heidelberger Standards der Klimamedizin. Heidelberg, 157–162.