From Lab to Laurels: DIPPER Lab Celebrates Christyn Naa-Aduele Hammond’s Graduation at KNUST
We’re still celebrating our research assistants who have just graduated.
Today, we congratulate and celebrate Christyn Naa-Aduele Hammond, who has successfully completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at KNUST with First Class Honours, achieving an outstanding CWA of 80.89.
Christyn has been working closely with Dr. Prince Odame, Child Health and Innovation Team Lead at DIPPER Lab, contributing to cutting-edge medical device research and development.
Her work has centered on an innovative AI-driven project aimed at improving pediatric emergency care in Ghana.
In emergency settings, accurately measuring a child’s height and weight is critical for proper medication dosing.
However, weighing critically ill children is often impractical, leaving healthcare workers to rely on weight-estimation tools based on non-African anthropometric data. This mismatch can lead to dosing errors—an urgent challenge Christyn set out to address.
Her project leverages artificial intelligence to predict a child’s height and weight directly from images, offering a rapid, non-contact, and context-specific solution.
By aligning with the growth patterns of Ghanaian children, Christyn’s work promises to make pediatric emergency care safer, more accurate, and more effective.
DIPPER Lab extends heartfelt congratulations to Christyn Naa-Aduele Hammond on her remarkable academic achievement and her dedication to research that could transform child healthcare in Ghana.
