Dr Fred Stephen Sarfo

• Co-I Ghana Kwame Nkumrah University

Dr. Fred Stephen Sarfo is a researcher, a clinician and an educator. He has been a Neurologist since 2010 and holds 2 doctoral degrees in Epidemiology and Molecular Medicine from Durham University, UK and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology respectively.

In 2010 Fred started a Neurology clinic at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi where he provides services for a population of 12 million Ghanaians in the middle and northern sectors of the country as the only practicing neurologist for this sector of Ghana.

Fred is passionate about context-specific research as a way of fashioning out locally relevant solutions to the health challenges in society. Findings from his research are used to inform the teaching of medical students and residents. To date, Fred has 193 peer-reviewed publications in Medical journals.