Dr. Bernard Ato Hagan holds a PhD in Animal Science (Animal Breeding and Quantitative Genetics) from McGill University, Canada, and is a senior lecturer at the Department of Animal Production and Health, UENR. He teaches Genetics and Animal Breeding, Advanced Animal Breeding, Research Methods, Organic Agriculture, Introduction to Animal Production, and Monogastric Production.

Dr. Hagan was an Australian Awards scholar at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, Australia. He has extensive research experience in livestock genetic improvement and design of breeding programmes under low input systems, ruminant production, dairy science, poultry breeding, and computation of economic values of relevant traits in livestock species under smallholder farming systems. His past research interests include realized and observed genetic selection differentials in economic traits of livestock, estimation of genetic parameters of quantitative traits, genotype by environment interactions in farmed species, and the use of morphological traits to predict the live body weights of farmed animal species.

Dr. Hagan has expertise in quantitative genetics, animal breeding, statistical analyses, and computer programming with SAS, R, FORTRAN, Genstat, and WOMBAT. His current research interests include determination of realised genetic selection differentials for production, type, and functional traits in dairy cattle herds, assessment of the impact of livestock production on the environment, and impact of non-genetic factors on production and functional traits in ruminants.

Dr. Hagan was the coordinator of the Community-based Small Ruminant breeding programme in northern Ghana funded by the Ministry of Local Government and the Canadian International Development Agency. He is passionate about the training of the next generation of animal breeders and has been a guest lecturer at University of Development Studies (UDS), Ghana, and McGill University, Canada. He has won a number of awards including Ghana Education Trust Fund Scholarship (2016-2020), Australian Awards Scholarships (2011-2012), Kinghorn Prize in Genetics (2011), Acram Taji Awards at UNE (2012), and Best National Agricultural Research Team (2009).

Dr. Hagan has authored and co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed research publications in both local and international journals. He is also a member of several Animal Science and Livestock-based Associations in Ghana and abroad. He is the editorial secretary of the Ghanaian Journal of Animal Science.