KCCR

Staff/Collaborators

All operations of KCCR are under the supervision of an Advisory Board chaired by: Prof. Dr. Frank O. Kwami, Former Vice-Chancellor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST two representatives from KNUST, Prof. Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, Vice-Chancellor, KNUST Prof. K. A. Danso, Dean, School of Medical Sciences, KNUST two representatives from Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) Prof. Rolf Horstmann, Chairman, BNITM Foundation, BNITM Prof. Juergen May, Chairman, Committee on Research in the Tropics, BNITM and one representative from the Ministry of Health (MOH) Mr. Isaac Adams, Director for Research, Statistics and Information Management   Management A joint management is representing the Centre in Ghana and abroad: Thomas van Kampen, Director Dr. Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Deputy Director G. A. Mensah-Agboh, Administrator Staffing KCCR employs 50 permanent staff including research scientist, laboratory technologists and technicians, administrative and secretarial staff, field workers and drivers, as well as 75 temporarily employed hospital and field personnel for various projects.  Key among them include: Head of Laboratories - vacant Sebastian Kankam, Accountant Henrietta Addai, Senior Administrative Secretary Yeboah Marfo Debrekyei, Research Fellow Linda Batsa, Research Fellow Capacity Building/Postgraduate Training One of KCCR’s major objectives has been to help building the capacity of local scientists to enable them imbibe the technology introduced on various projects by various collaborators.  To ensure this, KCCR offers the opportunity for postgraduate training/research on its projects.  Over the yeas 2 PhD and 10 Masters students have successfully defended their theses while 4 Ph.D. students and 5 Masters students are currently working ont heir theses projects. Collaborating Institutions      Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana      Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany      Health Research Unit (HRU), Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana      Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana      University of Bonn, Germany      Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Agogo, Ghana      Dunkwa-on-Offin General Hospital, Dunkwa-on-Offin, Ghana      St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London      University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA      Ludwig Maximillians Universität, (LMU), Munich      Freie Universität, Berlin