Dr. Kodwo Miezah

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Environmental Science
A005, Amissah Complex, Environmental Science Department, faculty of Biosciences, College of Science, Knust.


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Research Areas/Interests

Economic assessment of waste valorization programmes Pollution control along major roads in Ghana. Anaerobic digestion of waste – Focus on impr...~more

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Professional/Teaching Experience

  • (a) Subjects Taught:

    Undergraduate:

    Environmental Pollution,

    Solid Waste Management

    Hydrology

    Environmental and Health

    Ecology of Inland Waters

    Environmental Biology

    Geochemistry

    Introductory Geology

     

    Postgraduate (MSc/MPhil):

    Pollution Control and Bioremediation Technologies,

    Household and Hazardous Waste Management

    Water Quality  

    Environmental Chemical Processes/Chemistry of Environmental 

    Systems

     

    (PhD):

    Megacities Development and Waste Management,

    Emerging Environmental Challenges and Solutions

                                

    (b) Supervision of student project work/theses/research

    Undergraduate: 95 final year project work, August, 2017 to May, 2020

    Postgraduates: 25 MSc Research Thesis

                               9 MPhil. Research Thesis

                               3 Co-supervision of PhD Research Thesis

     

    OTHER PROFESSIONALLY RELATED EXPERIENCE

    1. Examination Officer, Environmental Science Department, January, 2018 to present
    2. Committee Member, Review of Landfill guidelines for operation in Ghana led by EPA, Ghana
    3. Committee Member, Review of Municipal Solid Waste Management guidelines in Ghana led by EPA, Ghana
    4. Committee Member, Hazardous Waste Management Bill Draft by EPA, Ghana
    5. Member, Board of Directors: Zoompak Ghana Limited, July, 2016 to present
    6. Member, Ashanti Regional Committee on Clean and Green Environment, November, 2017 to March 2020
    7. Member, Clean and Green GAMA, Greater Accra Region, April 2020 to Present
    8. Member, Expert Committee on Ghana NPAP (Ghana National Plastic Action Roadmap Expert Panel), 2020 to Present.
    9. Member, Waste Platform, Waste Management Expert Platform developed by UNDP, 2019 to present.
    10. Member, Plastic Management and Recycling Committee, KNUST, 2019 to present
  • CONFERENCES/SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

    1. Bernard Fei-Baffoe, Kodwo Miezah, Abdul-Raman Ahmed, Kojo Kwakye Ofori-Amanfo, Daniel Nyarko and Getrude Opoku, Anaerobic digestion of fruit waste from Ghana for Biogas production with efficient utilization of the effluent in agriculture, BSU II Conference on maximizing Stakeholder Involvement in Productive Research and Uptake, 28 – 30th March, 2017 at Golden Bean Hotel, Kumasi, Ghana.
    2. Sulemana Alhassan, Kodwo Miezah, Emmanuel A. Donkor, Kofi S. Boateng and George N. Rockson, Customer satisfaction of solid waste collection services: A measure towards effective waste management, The 33rd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, 11- 14, March, 2018, Annapolis, MD. USA.
    3. Expert Speaker WasteMet Asia, A WASH programme organized by government of Singapore, 2012
    4. Lead Speaker, Asian Youth Green Association, An inaugural environmental sanitation association of Singapore youth, 2012.
    5. Three different presentations on International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) platforms in Hamburg, Germany, 2011; Maryland-USA, 2017, Florence-Italy, 2019.

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