Editorial Team
Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei Editor-in-Chief
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.
Email: aaadjei@ug.edu.gh
Professor Regina Appiah-OpongAssistant Editor-in-Chief
Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research,
Department of Clinical Pathology
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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Prof. Alfred Edwin YawsonEditorial Board
Department of Community Room 46, Red Building Korle-Bu
Email: aeyawson@ug.edu.gh or aeyawson@yahoo.com
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Professor Mark Mawutor TetteyEditorial Board
Mark M. Tettey has his Bsc. in Human Biology and MB ChB from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of West African College of Surgeons, Fellow of Ghana College of Surgeons and a Member of European association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. He is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana. He is a practicing surgeon and consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery and works at the National Cardiothoracic Center at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He has over 25 years medical practice. He is the Editor of the School of Medicine (SMD) Newsletter and reviewer for 3 journals. His research areas are clinical and based on management and outcome of cases at the National Cardiothoracic Center. He has published over 50 articles in peer reviewed journal and book chapters.
Email: mmtettey@ug.edu.gh
Read more: http://www.ug.edu.gh/med-microbio/staff/dr-abi-nimo-kweku-mbchb-phd-mphil-bsc-hons
Professor George Obeng-AdjeiEditorial Board
Professor George Obeng Adjei holds an MD Degree from the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland, Postgraduate Diploma in Research Methodology, and PhD Degree from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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.
Dr Noah Obeng-NkrumahEditorial Board
Dr Noah Obeng-Nkrumah is a lecturer/research fellow with the University of Ghana. He leads the ResearchInspire group which takes advantage of diverse expertise representing several faculties and a broad network of stakeholders within the healthcare. His interests focus on the integration of epidemiology of infectious diseases and drug resistance. Noah Obeng-Nkrumah is a lead scientist on puerperal infection project of the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI)-Ghana group currently working on the surveillance of hospital acquired infections and antibiotic use. He is a member of the multidisciplinary national Antimicrobial Resistance Working group. He is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee of Fleming Fund Country Grant on Antimicrobial Drug Resistance Surveillance programme in Ghana. Noah Obeng-Nkrumah is a board member of the Carest College of Health, Ghana
Email: nobeng-nkrumah@ug.edu.gh
Dr Benjamin Arko-BohamEditorial Board
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.
Email: barko-boham@ug.edu.gh
Read more: http://www.ug.edu.gh/anatomy/staff/dr-benjamin-arko-boham
Dr. Joana Ainuson-QuampahEditorial Board
Dr. Joana Ainuson-Quampah is a distinguished and dynamic young lecturer at the University of Ghana. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Food Science in 2003 and proceeded to pursue a Master’s degree in Dietetics after receiving the Ghana Government Scholarship for MPhil Programmes from the College of Health Sciences. She subsequently attained an upgrade from MPhil to PHD following her first grant award from the Office of Research Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana. Joana obtained her doctorate (in Dietetics) in 2013 and became a part-time faculty member at the department of Dietetics the following year. She was appointed a full time lecturer in 2015. Dr. Quampah has vast experience in different areas of Nutrition, Food Science and Dietetics, including food safety, ethics/standards in professional practice, health promotion etc. Joana’s passion for research was deepened after her training at the Cardiovascular Research Training Institute (CaRT) in 2012. She is particularly interested in studying ‘link between diet, nutritional status and chronic diseases’ with special focus on cardiovascular disease prevention: the Influence of Ghanaian dietary oils. As a registered dietitian Joana also serve as a preceptor involved in clinical practice and training of interns and students.
Dr. Josephine AkpaluEditorial Board
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics,
University of Ghana Medical School
Email: jakpalu@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Florence NaabEditorial Board
Department Of Maternal And Child Health, School Of Nursing And Midwifery, College Of Health Sciences, University Of Ghana.
Email: florencenaab@yahoo.com or fnaab@ug.edu.gh
Mr. Godfred AmoahEditorial Administrator
Email: gamoah@ug.edu.gh
Mr. Amin AgongoComputer Systems
Email: amin2005agongo@gmail.com
Professor Christabel Enweronu-LaryeaAssistant Editor-in-Chief
Email: ccelaryea@ug.edu.gh
Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah QuakyiEditorial Board
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.
Email: iaquakyi@ug.edu.gh
Professor Neils Ben QuashieEditorial Board
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 Collins Stephen AhorluEditorial Board
Prof. Ahorlu has his BA and MA degrees in Sociology from University of Ghana; Postgraduate Diploma in Research Methods from University of Copenhagen, Denmark; MPhil in Global Leadership from University of Professional Studies, Accra and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Swiss TPH, University of Basel, Switzerland. Has been Associate Professor since 2017. He has vast research experience in social science, Public health and Epidemiology. Prof. Ahorlu has won the best graduating student award for Research Methods (University of Copenhagen) and Global Leadership (University of Professional Studies). He was the head of Epidemiology department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (2013 to 2017). He lectures at the Schools of public health, university of Ghana, where he has been teaching various courses including Plural medical systems in the third world, Research Methods, Implementation research, Health promotion and Cultural epidemiology. He has presented papers in more than 40 scientific conferences, workshops and seminars around the globe. Has published over 60 scientific peer-review journal articles, six book chapter and one monograph book. He is an associate editor for BMC Public Health and a reviewer for more than 10 Scientific journals.
Email: ahorlu@gmail.com or cahorlu@noguchi.ug.edu.gh
Read more https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Collins_Ahorlu
https://www.noguchimedres.org/index.php/dr-collins-stephen-kwaku-ahorlu
Dr Japheth Awuletey OpintanEditorial Board
Dr. Opintan’s research area is on antimicrobial drug resistance and diarrheal diseases. He is currently involved in the surveillance of antimicrobial drug resistance in Ghana, and he is also the scientific research coordinator of the ADMER project (http://admerproject.org/), a DANIDA sponsored programme. He is the lead for the Fleming Fund Country Grant on Antimicrobial Surveillance programme
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
Dr. Jonathan QuarteyEditorial Board
Email: jquartey@ug.edu.gh / neeayree@googlemail.com
Dr Kwaku Asah-Opoku Editorial Board
Dr Kwaku Asah-Opoku is a consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana, Accra. He is a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and a member of the Ghana College of Surgeons. He holds a Master of Public Health Degree from the University of Ghana. He is currently a lecturer in the University of Ghana, School of Medicine and Dentistry and lectures in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Community Health. His interest areas are Reproductive health, family planning, Caesarean sections and global health. His interest in global health has seen him serve as a facilitator in the Global Summer School on reproductive health in Utrecht, Netherlands. He has co-authored several articles in international peer reviewed journals and is a currently a reviewer of 3 scientific journals of high repute.
Dr. Mathew Yamoah Kyei Editorial Board
University of Ghana Medical School
Dr Mathew Yamoah Kyei have been in medical practice for the past 20 years, working as consultant Urologist at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery of University of Ghana Medical School. He is also a trainer, thesis supervisor and examiner of the West African College of Surgeons and the Ghana College of physicians and Surgeons.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Ghana Medical School Research Newsletter and is a reviewer for about 15 scientific journals. He has published about 30 journal articles and two book chapters.
He started his professional carrier as a house officer in 1998, through residency and graduated a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 2008 in Urology. He has also had postgraduate fellowships in Uro-oncology at the Tygerberg Hospital in South Africa and Sheba Medical Center in Israel.
He had his medical education at the University of Ghana Medical School (MBChB-1991-1998) and post graduate medical education with West Africa Post graduate Medical College leading to the ward of the Fellowship of the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS-2008).
His research interest is in urology in general and Uro-oncology and is a member of an international consortium of researchers undertaking research on prostate cancer.
Email: matkyei@yahoo.com; mkykyei@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Antoinette Afua Asiedua Bediako-Bowan Editorial Board
University of Ghana Medical School, Accra
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.
Email: abediako-bowan@ug.edu.gh
Dr. Phyllis Dako-GyekeEditorial Board
Dr 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.
Email: pdako-gyeke@ug.edu.gh
Mr. Nana Yaw AbankwahEditorial Administrator
Nana Yaw Abankwah is the Research Development Officer responsible for the facilitation of Pre and Post Award Services and the management of the Ethical and Protocol Review Committee of the College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana in the Korle-Bu Satellite Office.
Prior to his appointment, Daniel worked with the University of Ghana, School of Public Health as a Senior Research Assistant. Over the years, he has had professional experience doing research (i.e. proposal development for funding, data collection – qualitative and quantitative or both, data analysis and report writing). Experience in research have been in the area of health economics - healthcare financing, costing and cost effectiveness analysis, evaluation of mutual health organizations/insurance schemes; health systems research – health policies, decision making, stakeholder analysis; public health and population interventions and programmes (i.e., tropical, infectious and non-communicable diseases such as malaria, Ebola, hypertension and diabetes). He also has varied experiences in donor relations working on various projects for USAID, USAID HFG, DANIDA, FHI 360, WHO, R4D etc.
Nana Yaw holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also has a Master of Public Health Degree from the School of Public Health, University of Ghana
Email: dnyabankwah@ug.edu.gh
Editorial Advisors
Prof. David S. Roos University of Pennsylvania, USA
Prof. Shigeru Yamamoto Kanazawe University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Nico.P.E. Vermeulen VU University Amsterdam, Netherland.
Prof. Wilfred Mbacham University of Yaounde, Cameroon
Prof. David J. Sullivan Baltimore, Maryland
Prof. Graham Louw University of Cape Town, South Africa
Prof. Jorgen A.L. Kurtzhals University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Prof. Dr. Kitty Bloemenkamp University Medical Center Utrecht
Prof. Christie Abaidoo Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tech, Ghana
Prof. Evelyn Ansah University of Health and Allied Science, Ghana
Prof. J. D. Sefah University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana
Prof. Margaret Lartey University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana
Prof. Col. (Rtd) Edwin Afari University of Ghana, School of Public Health
Prof. Francis Martinson University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana.
Prof. Matilda Asiedu Steiner University of Ghana, School of Biological Sciences
Dr. Dwomoa Adu Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana
Other Members
Editorial Administrator - Mrs. Yvonne Okantey (yveteye@yahoo.com)
Statistical Editor - Emeritus Professor Richard Biritwum
Manuscript Proofread Services - Professor Jemima Mercy Newman
Website Design and Maintenance - Mr. Solomon Appiah-Nyanney (nyanney10@gmail.com)
