I trained as a clinician in Ghana at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2015. Before enrolling at the School, I worked with the Navrongo Health Research Centre in Northern Ghana as a coordinator on research related to infectious diseases, including meningitis and malaria. I then joined the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) and served as the Scientific Officer for the African Research Network on Neglected Tropical Diseases (ARNTD) and the Severe Typhoid in Africa Program (SETA) coordinator. In 2019, I joined LSHTM as a Research Fellow. Currently, I serve as a Clinical Trial Epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council Unit in The Gambia at LSHTM, coordinating a series of studies that compare a reduced dose pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedule with the standard schedule.
Affiliations
Teaching
I am a member of the team responsible for administering the LSHTM distance learning program focused on Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, which includes the assessment of examinations and assignments
Research
My research interest is in infectious diseases and vaccine-related research, including pneumonia, meningitis and malaria. I am interested in studying how infectious diseases spread within populations, identifying factors contributing to their transmission, and developing strategies to prevent and control outbreaks at a population level. I am currently investigating the relationship between pneumococcal carriage and interpersonal contact patterns and its role in persistent vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage in high-transmission settings.