Professor Seth Owusu-Agyei is the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Science in Ho, Ghana. Prior to this, he was the Director of Kintampo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service/Ministry of Health and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Infectious Tropical Diseases in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an epidemiologist.
Education
He had his basic degree education at the University of Ghana, Legon, a Master of Science degree in Applied Medical Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
Work experience
He started his research career at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana some 30 years ago; he later moved to Navrongo to work as a pioneer staff on the Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trials which later became the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC). He undertook several research studies in field/clinical epidemiology in Navrongo and served several years as a management member. He was later appointed as the Director of Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) under the Research and Development Division of the Ghana Health Services where he served in this capacity for 14 years. He spearheaded research, diversifying the scope, expanding on research collaborations with various research institutions, attracting funders to KHRC and building both human and infrastructural capacity required for excellent research. He has been Principal Investigator for several large-scale field/clinical intervention studies/trials in Ghana. Of special mention is studies carried out on the most advanced malaria vaccine that is very close to licensure as the first ever malaria vaccine to be deployed.
Science /Research output
Professor Owusu-Agyei’s main area of research is infectious disease epidemiology, especially malaria. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of large and longitudinal studies and is well known in maternal, neonatal and child health intervention studies as well as in non-communicable diseases research. He has served as member of several WHO Committees as temporary advisor. He was a board chair of the INDEPTH network for 4 years. He has served on several local and international committees and boards. He has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, several Technical reports conference presentations, and has co-authored 4 books.
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