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  Prof Kwadwo A. Koram (NMIMR, University of Ghana)                                  
 
I am Associate Professor and Head of Department of Epidemiology at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana. I trained in general medicine at the University of Ghana Medical School and practiced general medicine at the district level before specializing in Public Health and Epidemiology.

I joined the NMIMR in 1993 after training and working at the Medical Research Laboratories in The Gambia and obtaining a PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  I have since been working on various epidemiological studies of malaria in collaboration with colleagues in other departments and from several universities in and outside Ghana, generally to advance the understanding of innate immune responses to malaria infection.

I have also worked with the National Malaria Control Programme in the area of responses to treatment and surveillance of parasite resistance in the country and was one of the founding members of the West African Network on Antimalarial Resistance- WANMAT II. In addition, I am interested in clinical trials and the ethics of health research in developing countries and was a founding member of the African Malaria Vaccine Network, (AMVTN) in 1995 later named African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) and have served on several boards of the two bodies. Currently, I am the PI on a NIAID/NIH contract for malaria vaccine trials awarded to Noguchi Memorial Institute with sub contracts to the US Naval Medical Research Centre, Navrongo and Kintampo Health Research Centres (in Ghana) and the Centre National du Recherche et Formation sur Le Paludisme (CNRFP) in Burkina Faso. I coordinate and teach 2 courses in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health (UG) as well as supervising and advising students on their dissertations.

 
   

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