Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, PhD: Dorothy is a Professor of Microbiology, and the Director, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana. Prior to her current appointment, she had worked as the Deputy Director, West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens and Head of Bacteriology at the same university. She also lectures at the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology. Her main research interest includes AMR, diagnosis, host-pathogen interactions, and genomic epidemiology of infectious diseases. She has extensive experience conducting sero-epidemiological surveys and one-health studies. She also offers advisory services; she is a member of the WHO Global Network of Laboratories Confirming Buruli ulcer, member of the Advisory Board of IRRESEF, Senegal, Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the National TB Control Program. She is also a member of PANDORA-ID-NET and West Africa Network of Excellence for TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS (WANETAM). She was a Wellcome Trust Fellow 2012-2017. She is a Senior Fellow of the EDCTP and won the Royal Society Africa Prize 2018.