John Humphrey Amuasi

Dr. John Amuasi is based at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where Heads the Global Health Department of the School of Public Health and Leader of the Global One Health Research Group at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR). He holds a W2 Professorship of Global One Health at the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine and the University of Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, is an adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in the USA, and an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK. For over 20 years, he has engaged in Tropical Medicine and Global Health research – including in malaria, NTDs, AMR and One Health. He has also consulted for several Global Health-focused organizations and supported civil society organizations with technical expertise on matters related to access to drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, as well as strategic advice related to Global Health research. He further serves as Co-Chair of The Lancet One Health Commission, and as a regular technical advisor/contributor to several Global Health organizations. He is passionate about mentorship and sustainably building health research capacities in Africa.