David Ofori-Adjei is a prominent Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

nian physician and medical researcher. A graduate of the University of Ghana

University of Ghana

The University of Ghana is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian universities and tertiary institutions. It is one of the best universities in Africa and by far the most prestigious in West Africa...

 Medical School and University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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 he has written 58 original research papers in international journals. His main areas of research are clinical pharmacology

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

, pharmacogenetics

Pharmacogenetics

The terms pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics tend to be used interchangeably, and a precise, consensus definition of either remains elusive...

, infectious diseases such as malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

, schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis

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, Buruli ulcer

Buruli ulcer

The Buruli ulcer is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. The genus also includes the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy...

, and HIV/AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 and public sector pharmaceutical management. He was elected to the Council of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology of the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in 2000. Ofori-Adjei has promoted the Rational Use of Drugs in Ghana and the development of the National Essential Drugs List with Therapeutic Guidelines since the late 1980s. He served on the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention

United States Pharmacopeia

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 and the International Health Advisory Panel for ten years. He is currently the Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Medical Journal

Ghana Medical Journal

The Ghana Medical Journal is a quarterly open-access peer-reviewed medical journal from Ghana. It is published by the Ghana Medical Association and the current editor-in-chief is David Ofori-Adjei. The journal is under the African Health Journals Partnership Project that is funded by the United...

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