Dr Emmanuel Badu is a teaching and research academic in the Discipline of Health Promotion and Sexology at Curtin University School of Population Health. He specialises in migrant health with a specific interest in the systems that shape the health and well-being of African migrant communities. His research interests include: the social and commercial determinants of gambling; health and well-being intervention design, implementation, and evaluation; conceptualisations of well-being; and health promotion leadership.

Emmanuel brings a wealth of public health practice experience across both low-income and high-income settings, having served as a Programme Manager for Primary Care, a Regional Health Promotion Officer, and a Public Relations Officer.

Emmanuel holds a PhD in Public Health from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), an MSc in Public Health-Health Promotion from Leeds Beckett University, and a BSc (hons) in Biochemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).