Institute: MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM
Biography
Dr Isaac Osei trained as a medical doctor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. In addition, Isaac is a graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK, with an MSc in Epidemiology. He is also a recipient of the 2014 prestigious Africa London Nagasaki (ALN) Scholarship award for young African scientists. Isaac at the outset practiced as a medical doctor in Ghana and later joined the Navrongo Health Research Centre in 2010 as a study physician on the Meningitis Vaccine Project and subsequently as an investigator on research in infectious diseases including meningitis and malaria. He later moved to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) where he served as the Scientific Officer for the African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases and also as the coordinator of the Severe Typhoid in Africa Program. He was also a Research Fellow with the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the KCCR, Ghana. Isaac is currently a Research Fellow at the LSHTM and serves as the Clinical Trial Epidemiologist with the Pneumococcal Vaccine Schedule (PVS) trial at The MRCG at LSHTM, at the Basse Field Station, The Gambia
My main Research Area/Interest are: Bacteria(pneumococal, meningitis); Clinical trials; Drug discovery and development; Public health; Parasites; Vaccines; Immunisation. My main discipline includes: Epidemiology: Medicine: Microbiology: Parasitology: Vaccinology.
Key Publications
A list of publications can be found here.
Web Links of Interest