Professor of Population Studies
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research joins climate change, population, migration, health and food security.
Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe is a Professor of Population Studies at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development, University of Ghana. He is the immediate past Provost of the College of Education, University of Ghana and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
Prof. Codjoe was appointed a Lecturer at RIPS, UG in November 2004, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008, Associate Professor in 2011, and Professor in 2015. He served as Deputy Director of RIPS in 2011-2012 and Director from 2012 to 2018. As Director he diversified the institute’s funding base, formalised collaboration with the University of North Carolina–Carolina Population Center through a Memorandum of Understanding signed in March 2012, established a Quality Assurance Committee, and operationalised the RIPS Endowment Fund (REF).
The themes his publications gather around. Each opens its part of the library.
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From OpenAlex, as of 7 November 2026.
Antwi-Agyei, P., Dougill, A., Stringer, L. C., & Codjoe, S. (2017). Adaptation opportunities and maladaptive outcomes in climate vulnerability hotspots in northern Ghana. Climate Risk Management, 19, 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2017.11.003
Codjoe, S. N. A., Okutu, D., & Abu, M. (2016). Urban household characteristics and dietary diversity: An analysis of food security in Accra, Ghana. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 37(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572116631882
Antwi-Agyei, P., Quinn, C., Adiku, S., Codjoe, S., Dougill, A., Lamboll, R., & Dovie, D. (2016). Perceived stressors of climate vulnerability across scales in the Savannah zone of Ghana: A participatory approach. Regional Environmental Change, 17(1), 213–227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-0993-4
Codjoe, S. N. A., Owusu, G., & Burkett, V. (2014). Perception, experience and indigenous knowledge of climate change and variability: The case of Accra, a sub-Saharan African city. Regional Environmental Change, 14(1), 369–383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-013-0500-0
Tschakert, P., Sagoe, R., Ofori-Darko, G., & Codjoe, S. N. (2010). Floods in the Sahel: An analysis of anomalies, memory and anticipatory learning. Climatic Change, 103(3-4), 471–502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-009-9776-y
From his climate change research grew community work in Accra: a 144-metre drain in Agbogbloshie, waste management for households in James Town, and sheds for the fishmongers of Ussher Town and Sempe.
Principal investigator · 2026–2031 · Wellcome
With Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal; University of Oxford, UK; Climate and Development Knowledge Network; and Abantu for Development.
Co-investigator · 2024–2032 · Mastercard Foundation
With Makerere University, Uganda; University of Cape Town, South Africa; and University of Cambridge, UK.
Principal investigator · 2023–2026 · Belmont Forum
With Lund University Centre for Sustainability Science (LUCSUS); Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia (IPAM), Brazil; Centre for Research on Governance and Development (CPGD), Mozambique; and Climate Analytics, USA.
Mon 22 Jun 2026
Environment and Climate Mobilities Network Conference, University of Wageningen, Netherlands
Tue 9 Jun 2026
World Conference Center Bonn, Germany
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Bonn, Germany
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Africa Climate Resilience Summit: Climate Mitigation, Adaptation, and Societal Transformation (MAST). The Pontifical Academies of Sciences (PAS) and of Social Sciences (PASS), The Vatican with CIFOR-ICRAF, NASAC, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya