UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

1. Professor in Clinical Microbiology, KNUST (October 2009- Present)
2. Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology, KNUST (October 2002 –2009)
3. Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, KNUST (October 1997 – September 2002)
4. Part Time Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, KNUST (1995 – 1997)
5. Tutor MSc STI/HIV programme, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine(2003-4
6. Tutor, External Programme (Distance Education- MSc Control of Infectious Disease), University of London (2009-12).
7. Faculty Member, University of Witwatersrand HIV Research Unit, ReproductiveHealth Research Course, Johannesburg, (2004-5)

8. Senior Researcher, Institute of Science and Technology in Africa (ISTA), KNUST (2005 – 2010).

9. Part-Time Lecturer, Radford University College Accra (2014 – date).
10. Part Time Lecturer, Accra College of Medicine (2015- date).

 UNIVERSITY RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES

1. Provost, College of Health Sciences (1 October 2017 – 31 July 2020)
2. Dean, School of Medical Sciences (now School of Medicine and Dentistry) (January 2012 – July 2017).
3. Vice-Dean, School of Medical Sciences (2007-2011).
4. Head of Department, Department of Clinical Microbiology, SMS (1 August 2017 – 30 Sept 2017, 2007 – 2011).
5. Hall Master, Clinical Students Hostel (September 2000 – October 2001, 2006 - 2007).
6. Academic Tutor (2009 – date)

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD

1. Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) (2011- Present)

2. Senior Specialist, Department of Clinical Microbiology, KATH (2007-2011).
3. Physician in charge, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic, KATH (Clinic was established by me following postgraduate training in STI management. Clinic has since metamorphosed into the HIV Antiretroviral Clinic) (1993 – 2000).
4. Medical Officer/House Officer, KATH (Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics and

       Gynaecology, Child Health, Surgery and Clinical Microbiology) (1989 – 2000).

PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES

1. Head, Department of Clinical Microbiology, KATH (2007-2012).
2. Chairman, Hospital Infection Control Committee, KATH (2007-2009).

 MEMBERSHIP OF UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES, KNUST

1. Editor in Chief, Journal of Science and Technology, KNUST (August 2020-July 2022).
2. Chairman, University Policies Committees on Disability, Health and Safety, Gender (December 2020 – Present)
3. Chairman, Enterprise Development Board, KNUST (Jan 2021- Present)
4. Representative of KNUST on the Governing Board of the Entrance University College of Health Sciences (an Affiliate of KNUST) (August 2020- July 2022)
5. Member University Appointment and Promotions Committee (2017 - date)
6. Member, Academic Board (As Provost of College, CHS, KNUST (2017 – July 2020)
7. Member, Academic Board (Professorial Representative, CHS, KNUST (2014 – 2017).
8. Member University Appointment and Promotions Committee (Alternate) (2015-2017)
9. Member, Executive Committee, KNUST (2015 – July 2020).
10. Member Welfare Services Board KNUST (2017-July 2020)
11. Member, Planning and Resources Committee, KNUST (2017-July 2020)
12. Member, Health Services Management Committee, KNUST (2012 – July 2020).
13. Chairman, Committee to Develop Model for the Running of the University Hospital Special Ward (July 2013).
14. Member, Special Committee to Consider the Possibility of Making the University Hospital the Foundation Centre of the KNUST Teaching Hospital (August 2014)
15. Member/Mentor Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement Project (2015-date).
16. Member of Governing Council, Ghana Telecom University College (KNUST Rep, 2018 - 2020)
17. KNUST Representative on the Academic Board and Appointment and Promotions Committee of the Narh-Bita College, Tema (2014-2016).
18. Member, School of Graduate Studies Board (2012 – 2014).
19. Member, Advisory Board, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) (2012 – 2017)
20. Chairman, KNUST Planning and Resources Sub-Committee to consider Proposal on the Diploma in General Nursing Programme for the Family Health Nursing School, Accra (November 2015).
21. Chairman, KNUST Planning and Resources Sub-Committee to consider Proposal on the Diploma in Midwifery Programme for the Family Health Nursing School, Accra (December 2015).
22. Member, Central Undergraduate Admission Committee, KNUST (2006 - 2014).
23. Chairman, Hall Council, Clinical Students Hostel (September 2000 – October 2001, 2006 - 2007).
24. Chairman, KNUST Planning and Resources Sub-Committee to consider Proposal from the Faculty of Social Sciences to split the BSc Sociology and Social Work Degree into 2; BSc Sociology and BA Social Work (2010).
25. Chairman, KNUST Planning and Resources Sub-Committee to consider Proposal on the BSc Nursing Programme for Diplomates and Registered General Nurses (2010).
26. Member, KNUST Committee to consider policy options to regulate the approval or permission to pursue part-time sandwich, distance studies etc for Junior staff and Senior staff of KNUST. (August 2009).
27. Chairman, KNUST Planning and Resource Sub-Committee on the establishment of a BSc Bio-Medical Engineering Programme at the College of Engineering (June 2008).
28. Member, Committee to develop an AIDS Policy for KNUST (July 2007).
29. Fellow, Clinical Students Hostel (2013-Present).

Member other Non-Statutory University Committees

1. Member, Search Committee for the Appointment of Provost, College of Art and Built Environment (2019)
2. Member, Search Committee for the Appointment of Provost, College of Science KNUST (2019)
3. Member, Search Committee for the Review of the Appointment of the Provost, College of Engineering KNUST (2019)
4. Member, Search Committee for the conferment of Honorary Doctorates on National and International Figures by KNUST (21019)
5. Member, Search Committee for the Appointment of Director of the Institute of Distance Learning, KNUST (2018)

1. UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

TEACHING

1. Professor, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology (October 1997 – Present): I teach Bacteriology, Virology, Clinical Microbiology, Infection Control, Immunology and Sexually Transmitted Infections to undergraduate students; BSc Human Biology (Year 3), BSc Medical Laboratory Technology (Years 3 and 4), BSc Nursing (Year 2), MBChB (Year 1) and Postgraduate students (MSc Clinical Microbiology, MSc Population and Reproductive Health, MPhil Clinical Microbiology, PhD Clinical Microbiology, PhD Public Health). I also supervise project work and dissertations of BSc Medical Laboratory Technology, MSc, MPhil, and PhD students. I teach and supervise research work of resident doctors in the West Africa Postgraduate Medical College and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons Programme at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. I am on the Faculty of the Diploma in Project Design and Management course, a joint programme of the School of Medical Sciences, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
2. Senior Researcher, Institute of Science and Technology in Africa (ISTA), KNUST (2005 – 2010). Member of group that discusses HIV/AIDS research proposals and seek funding for implementation.

RESEARCH

I have been very active in research since joining the University in 1997. Most of the researches have addressed issues of Public health importance in the country. One of them won the British Medical Journal Award, having led to a change in public policy in the area of maternal screening for syphilis in the country. I always budget for graduate students training within these researches, through which I have mentored Postdoc, PhD and Masters Students. None of my graduate research students have faced difficulties with funding, with many graduating within time limits set by the Graduate School.

Highlighted below are some of the researches I am/have been involved in;

1. Investigator, Phase IV Study, Typhoid Fever Vaccine (TyVeGHA) Trial (2019-2023). EDCTP/BMGF Funding through the International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea – Multicentre trial : Ghana, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Madagascar
2. Investigator Vacc-Ints Study (2020 – 2022) ( Clinical trial of Vaccine against Invasive Non-typhoidal Samonellae Infection). Funded by GSK.
3. Principal Investigator, Exploring Stigmas and HIV Diagnosis Delay, Linkage and Retention for MSM in Ghana (2016-2017) - Funded by NIH through the University of Rochester.
4. Principal Investigator, Feasibility and Acceptability of using a Mobile Application for HIV Symptom Monitoring, Clinical Follow Up and Peer Support among HIV Infected MSM in Ghana, West Africa (2016-2017). NIH Funding through the University of Rochester
5. Principal Investigator, Severe Typhoid in Africa Study (2015-18). Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea. This study seeks to investigate risk factors associated with severe typhoid infection. It is a multi-centre study with sites in Madagascar, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Ghana (KNUST). There is a position for 1 PhD student, and 1MSc student.

1. Co-Investigator, Nasopharyngeal Microbiota changes among Children with HIV Infection (2017). EDCTP Funding
2. Principal Investigator; Estimating the Population Size and HIV surveillance in People Who Inject Drugs in Kumasi (2017).Funded by Boston Centre for Global Health, Boston.

1. Principal Investigator, Ghana Mens’ Study II (2015-2017). This is funded by the Centers for Disease Control/Ghana AIDS Commission. The Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa is giving technical support. HIV in Ghana disproportionally affects certain groups including Men who have sex with Men (MSM). Whilst the prevalence of infection in the general population in Ghana is 1.3%, that in the MSM population is 17.5%. This is a follow up study to the Ghana Mens’ Study 1 carried out in 2012. The current study seeks to find out whether interventions put in after the 2012 study have made any impact on the prevalence of infection in MSM. There is a position for 1 PhD student and 2 MSc students.
2. Principal Investigator, Comparison of 30mg and 20mg Azithromycin in the treatment of Yaws (2015-16). Funded by the WHO, Geneva. An earlier study of treatment for yaws infection recommended a dose of 30mg/kg of azithromycin. This is the current WHO recommendation.  However there are many public health programmes slated for eradication that use 20mg/kg of azithromycin (e.g. Trachoma mass drug administration). This treatment trial compares the 20mg and 30 mg doses. Should the 20mg dose work, it will have huge implications for Yaws programming.  The trial is being coordinated form KNUST with sites in the Eastern and Central Regions. A similar study is starting soon in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. 1 PhD student is being mentored through this.
3. Principal Investigator, German-African Cooperation Projects in Infectology - Coronaviruses as a paradigm for the transmission interface between wildlife, livestock and humans (2014-2017). Funded by the German Research Council, 2PhD and 2 MPhil are in training on this. Coronaviruses found in livestock, including the SARS-coronavirus have a high zoonotic potential. This study is sampling body fluid material from livestock including cattle, sheep, goats, camels and pigs across the country for the presence of coronaviruses in them and risk factors for the potential transfer of the viruses to man.
4. Fever without source (2013-2015). Most febrile illnesses in children in Ghana are ascribed to malaria and enteric fevers. There remains many fevers though, the cause of which are unknown. Funded by the DZIF, Germany, this study sought to elucidate causes of fever in children with unapparent sources at the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital.
5. Principal Investigator; HIV Key Populations Study. Funded by USAID, Ghana (2013-2014). Collaborated with the University of Boston. HIV key populations are those who have a disproportionately high risk of HIV acquisition and whom HIV Information, Education and Communication messages are least targeted. These include MSM, Young female students in tertiary institutions, Intravenous drug users, prisoners, and young females working as porters and in Bars. The study looked at the risk factors for the acquisition of HIV in these populations.
6. Principal Investigator: Bat-borne Lyssaviruses as causes of Viral encephalitis and potential zoonosis in Ghana (2010-13). Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany with Collaboration from the University of Bonn (1 PhD, 1 MPhil trained on this). Some novel hepatitis viruses with the potential of causing human infections were found in bats inhabiting various caves in Ghana.
7. Principal Investigator, Virus biology, host ecology, and human behaviour as determinants for Coronaviral zoonoses (2010-2012). Funded by the German Research Council (1 PhD trained on this) with collaboration from the University of Bonn. The risk of a potential zoonosis from Bat-borne viruses led us to study possible bat-human interactions that could pose a risk of infection. A previous pilot study conducted in caves indicated the presence of coronaviruses in bats. Additionally, the presence of Henipavirus was demonstrated in the fruit eating bats in Kumasi.
8. Co-Investigator, African Programme of Advanced Research Epidemiology and Training (APARET). Funded by the European Commission (2011-12). 2 Research Fellows were trained on this
9. Principal Investigator; Ghana Syphilis Study (2010-2012). Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2 PhD students, 1 Msc and 1 MPH student). Issues of point of care diagnostics for syphilis in pregnancy were studied. Based on this a recommendation for the use of the SD Bioline test kit was made to the Ghana Health Service and it is one of the tests currently used in both HIV and maternal syphilis programmes in the country.
10. DFID (UK) Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Consortium (Included Partners from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Reproductive Health Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, National Institute for Medica Research, Mwanza Tanzania) (2004-2010). This supported my PhD research on Trichomoniasis. 1 PhD and 1 MSc student were trained on this. Through this many sexual Reproductive issues in Ghana were studied including maternal syphilis in pregnancy (award winning study) and Human Papilloma Virus vaccine initiation in Ghana.
11. Co- Investigator, Viruses and bacteria as sources of fever in African children (2007-2009). Study was funded by the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) with the Bernadt Nocht Institute, Hamburg as Collaborator. The study looked at various aetiological agents responsible for fevers in children. 1 PhD (One of my current post-doc students) and 2 MPhil students were trained on this
12. Principal Investigator; Typhoid Fever Surveillance Programme in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006-2008). Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (With the International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea (1 PhD and 2 MPhil students have graduated through this). The burden of typhoid fever in the Asante Akyem North District and the antimicrobial patterns of Salmonellae were studied.
13. Co-Investigator, Young Infants Study (2000) (With Boston University). This was funded by Saving New Born Lives, a US based charity. The study looked at factors that predicted hospitalization of children with fever.
14. Collaborator, Amoxycillin and Penicillin in Severe Pneumonia in Children Study (1998-2000), (With Boston University and funding from Saving New Born Lives). Penicillin had been the drug of choice for the treatment of pneumonia in children. This study for the same infection, compared penicillin to amoxicillin.