Dr. Kennedy Gyau Boahen is a lecturer in Clinical Microbiology at the Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST Kumasi. In 2009, he obtained his BSc. in Biological Science and MPhil in Clinical Microbiology in 2015. He obtained PhD in Clinical Microbiology in 2018 with sponsorship from the Bernhard Nocht Institute, Germany. He obtained all his postgraduate education from the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, KNUST. He has been involved in various clinical research some of which were multinational. His area of research is predominately on infectious disease epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance and emerging bacterial pathogen. He has co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed articles.