Academic Degrees
Primary Departmental Affiliation
Department of Biological, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Departmental Address
School of Public Health, Main Building Complex, Room C1-C2
Associate Affiliations
Department of Biology, Georgetown University
Research interest
I am a Professor of Immunology and Parasitology, a health researcher and Public Health practitioner. My research and teaching over the past three decades focused on malaria immunity, immunoepidemiology, immunopathology, immunodiagnosis, autoimmunity, molecular immunology and vaccine development. Research on malaria and concomitant infections with measles and HIV/AID has had equal attention. I am passionate about and contribute to biomedical research and capacity Development and Knowledge translation. I have substantial international research capability and capacity, having worked in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Australia, England and the Netherlands, and have garnered interpersonal skills and academic scholarship necessary for leadership to build needed capacity for public health. As Principal and Co-principal investigator on several research projects and North-South research partnerships, currently with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health Programs, and Centre for Biologics and Evaluation and Research, US Food and drug Administration, Maryland, these programs target faculty development, research and curriculum development and operational research and help promote research and academic excellence. I have the experience, expertise, motivation and leadership skills for the conduct of research activities that span the basic sciences, operational and social sciences that have focused on the socio-cultural context. Currently PI of a Multidisciplinary case control longitudinal malaria field research in a fishing village at Kpone on Sea, Tema, and an operational research on Improving correct diagnosis and treatment of malaria in rural Ghana, namely in Asante Akim North and South Districts in the Ashanti Region, Shama District in the Western Region, West Gonja District in the Northern Region and Kpone on Sea in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Region. I have published widely in high-impact peer reviewed journals and have supervised and continue to supervise several graduate research projects and continue to contribute to the academic, research and extention works at the University of Ghana. I also serve on several expert committees on pathogenesis and applied genomics in infectious diseases, immunodiagnosis and malaria vaccine development.
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