Positions Held & Hold
6.1 Service to the University
2020-date Pro Vice-Chancellor, KNUST
2019 Dean, School of Public Health, KNUST
2019 Chairman, Scientific Conference Planning Committee, CHS, KNUST
2019 Member, University Research Ethics Board, KNUST
2018-2020 Member, Committee for the nomination for the 2018 KNUST excellence award, College of Health Sciences
2018 Chairman, Committee to accredit Trauma and orthopaedic Technician Programme in affiliation with KNUST
2017 – 2020 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Science and Technology (JUST), KNUST, Kumasi
2017-2020 Member, Books and Publications Committee
2017-2020 Member, Advisory Board of Office of Grants and Research
2017-2020 Member, Research Committee, School of Medical Sciences, SMS
2017-2020 Member, College Board, College of Health Sciences, KNUST
2017-2019 Acting Dean, School of Public Health, KNUST
2018 Member, College of Health Sciences, Strategic Planning Committee
2017 Member, Scientific Conference Planning Committee, SMS, KNUST
2016-2020 Member, Strategic Plan Working Group, SPH, KNUST
2016-2020 Moderator, Master of Public Health Programme ENSIGN College of Public Health
2015-2020 Member, Scientific Conference Planning Committee, CHS, KNUST
2015 Member/Secretary, Committee that reviewed the state agreement for KCCR
2013-2014 Member, Research Policy Drafting Committee, KNUST
2013 -2015 Chairman, Committee on Research Strategy, SMS, KNUST
2013 Chairman, Committee on Expression of Interest for advancing early career research in Africa, KNUST
2014-date Member, School of Public Health, Board, KNUST
2012-2017 Director, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, KNUST
2010-2012 Deputy Director, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, KNUST
2012-2014 Member, Health and Safety drafting committee, KNUST
2012 Member, Research Policy Drafting Committee, KCCR/KNUST
2003 – 2006 Examinations Officer, Department of Community Health, SMS, KNUST
2003-2006 Member, School Examinations Board, SMS, KNUST
2004-2006 Sexually Transmitted Infections Working Group, CHS, KNUST
2002-2006 Member, Grants/Journal Club, School of Medical Sciences, KNUST
2002- date Hall Fellow, University Hall, KNUST
6.2 Service to the Nation
2019 Chairman Committee to review accreditation documents for four programmes (Epidemiology, Health Policy, Informatics and occupational health) at School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon.
2018 Member, Committee to review national Policy on NCDs, Ghana
2018-date Assessor, Accreditation of Master of Health Economics Programme, University of Ghana
2017-date Member, Kumasi Executive Committee, Cancer City Challenge
2018 Member, Council Narh-Beta University, Tema
2017-date Chairman, Committee to review curriculum for the establishment of a programme in Pharmacy, Entrance University College
2017-date External Assessor for promotions, University of Ghana
2016-2020 Moderator, Master of Public Health Programme ENSIGN College of Public Health
2016-date External Assessor for promotion, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Accra
2016 Special Guest, WARIFA 2017 forum
2016-2017 Member, Ghana Health Service/WHO in-country expert group on laboratory surveillance
2015-2017 Member, WHO in-country expert group on epidemic prone diseases
2015-date Advisory Board Member, National Tuberculosis Program, Ghana
2015 Member/Secretary, Committee that reviewed the state agreement for KCCR
2015 Member, Advisory Board, Malaria Control Program, Ghana
2015 Member, Oversight Committee for Integrated Bio Behavioural Surveillance, Ghana AIDS Commission, Accra
2014 Member, RM&E Sub Committee, Ghana AIDS Commission
2013 Chairman, Committee to develop proposal to establish World Bank Sponsored STEM African Centre of Excellence
2013-date External Examiner, University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry
2013- date Member and Secretary, Church Board, Living Waters Chapel
2013-date Part time lecturer, Nurse Anaesthetists Traning School, Komfo AnokyeTeaching Hosptial, Kumasi
2012-date Secretary, Advisory Board, KCCR
2012-date External Examiner, University of Cape Coast, School of Medical Sciences
2012-date External Assessor, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
2012 Representative, ANDI Centres of Excellence on IP
2011-date External Examiner, University for Development Studies, Department of Community Medicine
2011-date External Examiner, University of Ghana, School of Public Health
2011 Convener/organizer, first Ghana/Germany academies of sciences meeting, Kumasi, Ghana
2010-date Research Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, Ghana AIDS Commission
2010-date Reviewer, Ghana Medical Journal, Accra, Ghana
2010-date Chairman, Board of King’s Medical Centre, Kumbungu, Tamale
2010-date Research Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, Ghana AIDS Commission
2010-date Chairman, accreditation panel on behalf of national accreditation board – University of Cape Coast, Catholic University, Fiapre, University of Ghana, Ensign College and Entrance University College, Tema
2010-date External assessor for promotions and Examiner, University for Development Studies
2010-date Chairman, Board of Kings Village Project, Ghana
2010 Member, National Accreditation Board team to Accredit Catholic University of Ghana
6.3 Service to the International Community
2019 Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Cholera Vaccine Trial, Burkina Faso
2019 Member, Working group for European Union Consortium on iNTS vaccine Development.
2019 Moderator, Scientific Session, Enteric Fever and Salmonelloses, Hanoi, Vietnam
2018-date Associate Editor, BMC Series journal
2018 Perelman International Scholar, University of Pensylvania
2018 Member, WHO Technical Working Group on Salmonella Typhi
2017-date Reviewer, ACTA Tropica
2017-date Consultant, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Chair, Oral presentations at DFG scientific meeting, Hamburg, Germany
2017 Local Chair, organising committee, Africa Forum for Research and Education in Health (Afrehealth).
2017 Chair, Oral Abstract session, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung disease
2017 Local Chair, organising committee, Africa Forum for Research and Education in Health (Afrehealth).
2017 Member, Abstract Review Panel. 10th International Conference on Typhoid and Invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella
2017 Associate Editor, BMC Public health Journal
2016 – date Member, African Vaccine Manufacturing Initiative, Cape Town, SA
2016-2018 Member, Planning Committee, Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA),
2016-2017 WHO, Expert Panel, Joint Evaluation Tool for Epdiemic Prone Diseases
2016-2017 WHO Expert Panel, Influenza Surveillance Protocol Development
2016-date Member, Global working group on Salmonella and other diarrhoeal diseases
2016-date Member, Africa Sickle Cell Research Network (AfroSickleNet)
2015-date Reviewer for Volkswagen Foundation
2015 Fellow, International Advanced Vaccinology Course
2015 Chairperson, 6th Scientific Conference of the College of Health Sciences
2015 Member, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
2014 Speaker, BIO International Convention, San Francisco
2014-2017 Member, Expert committee to set up African Centre for Disease Control
2013-2016 Group leader, Benhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany
2013 Chairman, Committee to develop proposal to establish World Bank Sponsored STEM African Centre of Excellence
2013-date Reviewer, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2012-date Reviewer, Tropical Medicine and International Health
2012-date Reviewer, British Medical Journal
2012-date Reviewer, The Lancet Series
2012-date Reviewer, Ethnicity and Health Journal
2012-date Secretary, Advisory Board, KCCR
2012-date Representative, ANDI Centres of Excellence on IP, Addis Ababa
2012-2014 Country Leader, Health Quality Assessments in the ECOWAS region
2011-date Convener/organizer, first Ghana/Germany academies of sciences meeting, Kumasi, Ghana
2011-date Reviewer, Lung India Journal, India. http://www.journalonweb.com/lungindia
2011 Member, Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, Ghana AIDS Committee
2010-date Member, Scientific Committee, West Africa Health Research Network
2010-date Reviewer, BMC Public Health journal, London UK
2010-date Member, Scientific Committee, West Africa Health Research Network
2010-2015 Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), Co-Investigator
2010-2015 Member of the West African Health Organization