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Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei is a Professor of Immunology at the Department of Pathology, University of Ghana Medical School. He is the Coordinator for Worldwide Universities Network and the Australia-Africa Universities Network. He is a Fellow of the following: African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the African Sciences Institute. He is a Fellow and former national president of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists; Coordinator, University of Ghana Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Teams; Chairman, College of Health Sciences Ethical and Protocol Review Committee; and the Chairman, College of Health Sciences Public Lecture and Scientific Conference Committee. He is a former Deputy Provost, University of Ghana College of Health Sciences and the immediate past Director of Research, University of Ghana. Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei served on various committees of the University of Ghana. He is a reviewer of numerous Local and International Journals and has 134 publications in peer-reviewed journals |
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Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, Professor Regina Appiah-Opong is a Toxicologist with twenty-six (26) years working experience in medical research. She has led and participated in multidisciplinary research with national and international collaborators. The positions she has held include Research fellow, Head of Department, Part-time lecturer, Senior Research fellow and Associate Professor. She holds first and second degrees in Biochemistry from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and University of Ghana, respectively, and a PhD in Molecular Toxicology from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She had postdoctoral training at the Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, USA. Her research interest is mainly in drug interactions, pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics and drug discovery, particularly from plant sources. She has served as a reviewer for ten peer reviewed journals and published over 60 scientific journal articles, book chapters and patents. Email: rappiah-opong@noguchi.ug.edu.gh |
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University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences Professor Alfred E Yawson has over 16 years of medical practice and research experience. He has a BSc. (Honours) in Medical Sciences and MB ChB, from the University of Ghana Medical School, an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Diploma in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the University of London. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (Community Health), Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (Public Health), and a member of the WHO Team for the Multinational Study on AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). He is a physician, public health practitioner, academic and researcher. He combines these skills in the provision of health care, research, policy development as well as training and mentoring of students. He is currently the head of Department of Community Health, University of Ghana. He has over 85 publications. His research interest is in improving systems and processes of health care delivery in general and for specific groups (older adults; persons with HIV and AIDS; and chronic non-communicable diseases in adults and children) as well as health financing and quality improvement in health care systems https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55319911400 http://www.who.int/healthinfo/sage/articles_sage_wave1/en/index1.html |
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National Cardiothoracic Center, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Ghana. |
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University of Ghana School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences Email: nobeng-nkrumah@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Dietetics, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. |
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Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Dr Josephine Akpalu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and is currently the head of department. She renders clinical services at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital as a physician specialist and endocrinologist and was the head of the endocrinology unit. She had her postgraduate training in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the William Harvey Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Dr Akpalu had further training in Endocrinology at the Queen Elizabeth Birmingham Hospitals as a Commonwealth Academic Fellow. She is a fellow of West African College of Physicians and Ghana College Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS). She is currently the chairperson of the faculty of Internal Medicine, GCPS. Her research interests are cardiovascular diseases among diabetes and obese patients, thyroid and pituitary disorders in Ghana and has some publications to her credit. Email: jakpalu@ug.edu.gh |
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Department Of Maternal And Child Health, School Of Nursing And Midwifery, College Of Health Sciences, University Of Ghana. She has collaborated and led a team of researchers in the USA and Ghana to complete a research project that tested the feasibility of a culturally appropriate psycho-educational intervention in the form of a randomized control trial. Currently, she is leading a team of researchers in Ghana and South Africa to examine the predictors of psychosocial wellbeing of couples in Ghana and South Africa. |
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University of Ghana Medical School, Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. His expertise is in paediatric clinical pharmacology, especially in the areas of clinical trials, and therapeutics in special patient populations. His scholarly interests range from therapeutics and diagnostics to studies on basic mechanisms in infectious diseases. His research publications have focused on pathogenesis of severe childhood malaria, and clinical pharmacology of antimalarial drugs, including the application of pharmacokinetic modelling to optimize drug dosing. He has a keen interest in research ethics, especially the ethics of clinical research in vulnerable populations and serves on several ethics review boards. He is the Director of Research, Office of Research, Innovation and Development, University of Ghana (UG) and immediate past Director of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UG.
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Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei
Professor Regina Appiah-Opong
Professor Alfred E Yawson
Professor Mark M. Tettey
Dr Noah Obeng-Nkrumah
Dr. Joana Ainuson-Quampah
Dr Josephine Akpalu
Professor Florence Naab
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University of Ghana Medical School, Department of Child Health Read more: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christabel_Enweronu-Laryea |
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Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon Email: ikretchy@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Anatomy, University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana Benjamin Arko-Boham has a PhD in Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology with specialty in Tunour Cell Biology from Dalian Medical University, PR China. He also holds Masters (Human Anatomy) and BSc (Zoology) from the University of Ghana where he has worked since 2007 as a fulltime faculty member and is involved in teaching and research. His research activities concentrate on cancer biology and biomarker detection with principal focus on breast cancer. He is interested in unravelling and understanding the unique genetic alterations and mechanisms underpinning the aggressiveness of African cancers. He also focuses on blood plasma studies for the identification of potential cancer diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. He has a number of publications to his credit and serves as reviewer for several international journals and institutional ethics boards. Read more: http://www.ug.edu.gh/anatomy/staff/dr-benjamin-arko-boham |
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Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi is an of Immunology and Parasitology, University of Ghana (UG). Her research and teaching over the past four decades at NIH, Georgetown University and UG focused on malaria immunity, immunoparasitology, immunopathology, immunodiagnosis, autoimmunity, molecular immunology and vaccine development. Her research contributions include co-authorship on the first paper on cloning of Falciparum malaria CSP gene, development of the first CSP peptide vaccine, detailed genetic structure of P. falciparum, demonstrated that Pfs230 is a target for transmission blocking antibodies and epitopically mapped Pfs25. She received her PhD in Immunoparasitology from LSHTM and attained Full Professorship of Immunology and Parasitology in 2001. She was First Female Director of the UG School of Public Health (SPH) and the Foundation Dean of UGSPH. At UG she built substantial international research capacity, academic scholarship, the leadership needed to build capacity for Public Health. She is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, 2014 Laureate African Union Kwame Nkrumah Award for Women in Science, former member of Ghana Health Service Council, UNESCO Chair for Women in Science and Technology in West Africa Region. Biomedical research Development and Knowledge translation are her passion. |
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Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research https://www.noguchimedres.org/index.php/dr-collins-stephen-kwaku-ahorlu |
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Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Neils Ben Quashie is an associate professor and the current director of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, university of Ghana Medical School.He obtained his PhD in Infection and immunity from the University of Glasgow. His main focus in research is to understand the mechanism(s) propelling drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum infection. As such, together with collaborators, he has been tracking antimalarial drug resistance in Ghana for over a decade. Currently, he is attempting to use CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system, to discover a suitable molecular markers for monitoring antimalarial drugs in Ghana. His other interest has been the use of modern mehods to identify novel drug targets in the malaria parasite whilst searching for new anti-plasmodia compounds. Some of his research findings, conducted with collaborators, made available to the authorities was a major basis for a change in malaria treatment policy in Ghana recently. He has discovered and published novel pathways for transport of purine in falciparum as well as mediation of this essential nutrient in infected erythrocytes. He has also work with other parasites such as trypanosomes and trichomonas. Professor Quashie has over 45 publications in internationally renown Journal and is a peer reviewer for many journals. Email: nbquashie@ug.edu.gh |
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Professor Phyllis Dako-Gyeke is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. She holds a Masters Degree in Communication and Development Studies and PhD in Health Communication, from Ohio University, and Bowling Green State University, USA, respectively. Phyllis has over 12 years experience in research, teaching as well as community service. She has published widely in internationally renown journals covering relevant public health issues in low-to-middle income countries. She is a reviewer for several Journals and a Guest Editor for the Infectious Diseases of Poverty Journal. Professor Dako-Gyeke leads several World Health Organization (WHO) sponsored projects that seek to strengthen health research capacity across the African sub-region. These include running of the African Regional Traning Centre, with a key focus on implementation research; and design and facilitation of the Gender-based analysis online course. Phyllis has a wide experience in teaching, design and use of qualitative research methodologies, especially for impact assessment and exploratory studies. Her areas of interest include Maternal and Child Health, Social Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Intimate Partenr Violence, Gender and Health, Implementation Research, Ageing and Health, and HIV and AIDS. |
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Rev. Dr. Tom Akuetteh Ndanu is the Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, University of Ghana Dental School, College of Health Sciences, Korle Bu. His expertise is in Nutrition, Biochemistry, Biostatistics and Diet and Oral Health. He has over 50 peer-reviewed published articles. Published two Applied Statistics books and One Book on Diet, Nutrition and Oral Health. He is a member Trustees for African Nutrition Society, Trustee member of eNutrition Academy, London, Head of Treasury for ANS for ten years. Currently a Member of Committees including, Ethical and Protocol committee of the College of Health Sciences, Institutional Review Board of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. Member of Editorial Board of Health Sciences Investigative Journal. Chairman of the Research Committee of the University of Ghana Dental School. Current chairman of the College of Health Sciences Chaplaincy Board. A member of the Biennial Scientific committee for the past 8 years. Has attended more than two dozens international conferences where oral and poster presentations were done. Have also ran Statistics for Nutrition Research Workshops in five African countries, all sponsored British Nutrition Society. Been part of the African Task Force for Food and Nutrition Security meetings in DR Congo and Ethipia. Been part of the ECOWAS Nutrition forum that took place on Togo, Guinea Bissau and Liberia, all under the auspices of the West African Health Organization (WAHO). Email: tandanu@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Surgery, Dr Antoinette Bediako-Bowan is a lecturer in the Department of Surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School and General Surgeon in the Colorectal unit of Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra , Ghana, for the past 6years. She completed medical school (2005) at the University of Ghana Medical School in Accra and went on to have her residency and fellowship training (2014) as a General Surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, becoming a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons. She had her PhD studies (2020) in Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, describing the epidemiology of surgical site infections in a teaching hospital in Ghana and developing a surveillance system for monitoring surgical site infections in Ghana. She is interested in a research career in colorectal diseases, especially colorectal cancers, defining the incidence, molecular characteristics and treatment outcomes in Ghana as well as research aimed at improvement of infection control practices in hospitals in Ghana to reduce hospital acquired infections, specifically surgical site infections.
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Department of Physiotherapy, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana |
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University of Ghana Medical School, Department of Microbiology, Ghana Email: japh_opintan@yahoo.com or hjaopintan@ug.edu.> Read more: http://www.ug.edu.gh/med-microbio/staff/japheth-opintan-bsc-hons-mphil-phd |
Professor Christabel Enweronu-Laryea
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Dr. Benjamin Arko-Boham
Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah
Professor Collins Ahorlu
Professor Neils Ben Quashie
Professor Phyllis Dako-Gyeke
Rev. Dr. Tom Akuetteh Ndanu
Dr Antoinette Bediako-Bowan
Dr. Jonathan Quartey
Professor Japheth Awuletey Opintan