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Zephaniah Ayuah

Kidney disease awareness in northern Ghana — community screening, research, and children’s books.

Bongo, Ghana St. Thomas Aquinas SHS ’23 Head Boy
Zephaniah Winsakiya Ayuah
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01 / What I have actually done

The work

Nonprofit

Chronic Matters

Co-founder

Free annual chronic-disease screening with three partner clinics across 20 villages.

62CKD cases found · $7k raised

Research

Kidney CT AI bias

Sci–MI · supervised by Will Jardee, Montana State University

Trained a CNN to detect kidney disease, then measured what happens when the scans come from somewhere else.

43%accuracy drop on a different geographic populace

Research

Diet & CKD risk

Research intern · University for Development Studies

High-sodium diets and herbal drugs as kidney disease risks. Findings redrawn as cartoons.

40food vendors trained · 12 schools

Books

The Kidney Bean

Co-author & illustrator · with What Nadia Eats

Chronic kidney disease explained to children who have never heard the words.

32schools reached

Clinic

Korle Bu

Student clinical intern · Urology & Nephrology Centre of Excellence

Shadowed dialysis, then wrote the patient cards the ward was missing.

48families enrolled in insurance

Policy

Youth Parliament

Chair, Health Committee · 1 of 21 nationally

Four policy recommendations drafted. The insurance review for chronic disease was adopted.

6school sickbays renovated

Founded

Aquinas Cheer

Founder · Ghana’s first all-male high-school cheer squad

Built for boys who had nowhere to be seen. Six other schools copied it.

50+members · 21 living with chronic illness

Design

Solar dialysis

Research lead · Science Innovation Club

Catalogued why medical devices fail in rural wards, then designed around the power cuts.

62device failures analysed · 40% less projected downtime

Debate

Health policy debate

Captain · Aquinas Writers & Debaters Club

Health policy, mental health, gender rights. Fifteen junior debaters mentored.

3national titles · 4 regional

02 / Verifiable

By the number

20,846CT scans in the AI study
62kidney disease cases identified by screening
32schools holding the books
50+cheerleaders trained

03 / Pictures

In frame

Chronic Matters
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Chronic Matters
Zephaniah as Head Boy of St. Thomas Aquinas SHS
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Head Boy
Presenting the kidney CT study at the Sci-MI symposium
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Sci–MI symposium
A Chronic Matters screening day
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Screening day
Chronic Matters village outreach
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Village outreach
The Kidney Bean and What Nadia Eats
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The Kidney Bean · What Nadia Eats
Health education cartoons drawn for schools
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Health cartoons
National Youth Parliament Health Committee
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National Youth Parliament
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Debate
Solar-powered dialysis prototype
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Solar dialysis prototype
Gurene drumming
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Gurene drumming
Running a marathon
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Marathon
Aquinas Cheer Club
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Cheerleading
Kidney CT study — research poster
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Kidney CT study
Science Mentorship Institute certificate
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Sci–MI certificate

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