• Senior Lecturer

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Medical School and School of Public Health, Department of Global Health, Kumasi, Ghana. Joined KNUST in 2016. Current level from August 2020 to date.

Some responsibilities: Teaching Epidemiology, Disease Control, Research Methods. Supervising Medical, Nursing and Physician Assistant students as well as Masters and Doctoral thesis at the SPH and outside of Ghana.

• Research Group Leader – Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the Kumasi Collaborative Centre for Research in Tropical Medicine. KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. Current selected activities include:
  • Executive Director, African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases Secretariat hosted at KCCR. A multi-country Network funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Fondazione Cariplo, Gulbenkian Foundation, Foundation Merieux and the Nuffield Foundation. November 2014 to date
  • Country PI and Member of Executive Management. African Coalition for Epidemic Research Response and Training (ALERRT). December 2017 to date
  • Member: Ghana National Malaria Control Program Research Working Group. November 2016 to date
  • Steering Committee Member: Ebola Data Sharing Platform (with other representatives from WHO, MSF, IMC, Wellcome Trust, Oxford University, WAHO). June 2016 to date
  • Strategic Review Group Member: International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC). June 2017
  • Member:  WHO   Technical   Advisory   Group   on   COVID-19   Epidemiology. November 2020 to date
  • Member: WHO Ethics Review Committee for COVID- August 2020 to date
  • Member: WHO Clinical Advisory Group of the Global COVID-19 Clinical Data Platform. March 2021 to date
  • Member: Africa Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 Science, Standards and Regulations Technical Working Group. June 2020 to date
  • Member: Lancet Commission on COVID-19 Task Force on the Origins, Early Control of the Pandemic, and One Health Solutions to Future Pandemic Threa October 2020 to date
  • Member: The Lancet Chatham House Commission. October 2020 to date
  • Member: Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) to the Africa Centers for Disease Control (Africa CDC). May 2021 to date
  • Member: Wellcome Long COVID Advisory Board. May 2021 to date
  • Editorial Consultant. The Lancet Medical Journal. December 2006 to present