Prof. Peter Agyei-Baffour is the current Chair of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety of the School of Public Health (SPH) at the College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He has earlier served as the Foundation chair of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Economics in the same school. He worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Geography and Rural Development from 1997 and 1998, and served as a demonstrator from 1998 to 1999 in the Department of Industrial Management, all in the Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Humanities. His concentration is financing and research into strategies of managing informal sector to enhance resource mobilization through tax.

He joined the Department of Community Health in 1999 as a research assistant and coordinated an inter-country Health Partners research projects on malaria and severe anaemia in children and pregnant women funded by DANIDA and WHO/TDR until 2003 when he joined the main stream of the university as a research fellow. He was funded by DANIDA to read postgraduate Diploma course in Health Systems Research Methodology during which he secured funding for his PhD in Community Health with concentration in Health Systems Financing and Policy in the DBL-Institute of Human Research and Development, University of Copenhagen. He worked under the tutelage of Prof. Pascal Magnussen and Prof Kristian Schultz of the Aarhus University.

He returned to KNUST in 2008 to continue as a research fellow and then as a lecturer, promoted through the rank and file.    In 2009, he worked on Ghana-Michiagan Charter research programme as Human Resource for Health focal person during which the College of Health Sciences identified a gap in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety and recommended him for postdoctoral programme in Global Environmental Occupational Health (GEOHealth) focusing on Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety policies for six months intensive course in University of Michigan in 2011 and initiated the development of the current OEHS MPH/MSC programme. During this period, he researched into artisanal mining (Galamsey) with a team of experts from Canada and Michigan, US under the Partner I programme.

He was one of the three faculty who drafted the proposal for the establishment of KNUST School of Public Health and was then appointed as the first Head of Department of Health Policy Management and Economics. He is currently the chair of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety.

In 2011, he worked as a scientist on inter country (Ghana, UK, Germany and the Netherlands) EU funded Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants (RODAM) in from 2011 to 2014.

During his term as the chair of the Health Policy Management and Economics Department, he worked with German counterparts on Capacity Building in Health Systems Research and Management which led to the development of an Mphil/MPH/MSc course which started in 2017 with the third cohort in school now. He has trained over 12 PhD students, and more than 200 postgraduates and several undergraduates. He serves as an external examiner in many universities in Ghana and a reviewer of many journals across the world. He is over 100 publications to his credit.

Prof Agyei-Baffour has carved a niche for himself in Health Systems Policy Research since 1999 to date, His current research focuses are:

• Health Systems Policy, financing, economics, management and outcome research
• Population Health
• Global Environmental & Occupational Health) and Safety (GEOHealth) policy
• Communicable & Non-Communicable Diseases