Ellis Owusu-Dabo is a Public Health Physician, Consultant Research Scientist and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. As a Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, his area of expertise is in Medical Epidemiology and applied public health technologies.
As a university teacher, he has trained undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as mentored young faculty at both local and international levels. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Global Health from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, MSc. Public Health and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He is a Fellow of the West Africa and Ghana Colleges of Physicians.
Ellis is a Principal Investigator for a good number of projects including the Mastercard Foundation African Health Collaborative, European Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnerships and Severe Typhoid in Africa with funding from European Commission and Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation. It is through these positions that he has had a unique vantage point from which he has undertaken high-impact scientific projects and to train many students and faculty. Prof. Owusu-Dabo has excellent scientific research output and presence. As Perelman International Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, his passion is in building capacities of next generation scientists and health systems to help solve Africa’s health problems through scientific research collaborations.
Fifteen health business start-ups have been awarded funds totalling $150,000 by the Africa Health Collaborative, KNUST, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. The fund is intended to provide these budding
Miss Sarah Kwansema Ofori is Africa Higher Education Health Collaborative in partnership with Mastercard Foundation scholar reading MPhil Health Systems Research and Management at the School of Public Health, Kwame
Africa Higher education institutions are well-positioned to advance the Foundation’s health strategy due to their unique concentration of professionals and talents, their mission to train the leaders of the future and to develop and leverage knowledge to create both global and locally contextualized solutions.
We will establish a network that is anchored in Africa and builds on existing networks to ensure local knowledge and expertise are prioritized to create exponential impact.
A networked approach allows us to cross borders and sector divisions to collectively address shared health sector challenges as well as local ones, leveraging the power of higher education institutions as sites of knowledge exchange, community collaboration, and cross-sector partnerships.
