Samuel Oppong
PhD Student
MSc, DAS, BSc (Hons)
samuel.oppong@thekids.org.au
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-oppong-pmp-73008171Samuel is a PhD student with the Child Health Analytics team. Samuel’s PhD project is titled “Understanding malaria trends in Ghana”, where he is using advanced analytical methods to analyse malaria data in Ghana to inform targeting of interventions and strategies towards malaria elimination. His PhD is supported by a Higher Degree Research Scholarship and a Malaria Atlas Project Top-Up Scholarship at the Curtin University.
Prior to his PhD, Samuel worked with the Ghana National Malaria Elimination Programme for 14 years and with the US President Malaria Initiative (PMI) Ghana office for 2 and a half years. Samuel is using his rich understand of malaria epidemiology in an endemic country to support development of bespoke spatiotemporal models for malaria prevalence and incidence. His work includes modelling the factors contributing to malaria trends in Ghana.
Samuel has training in Epidemiology, graduating from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (STPH), University of Basel (Unibas) in 2015. He also holds a Diploma in Advanced Studies from STPH/Unibas) in Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries. He graduated from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana in 2007 where he researched on cases of HIV/AIDS in the Central Regional Hospital for this Honours thesis.
He is a certified Project Management Professional and has led various national level health system projects in Ghana.
Education and Qualifications
- MSc Epidemiology – University of Basel, Switzerland
- Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries – University of Basel, Switzerland
- BSc (Hons) Human Biology – University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- PMP – Project Management Institute (PMI), US
Awards/Honours
- 2020 - African Oxford Travel Awards, University of Oxford, UK
- 2012 – Travel Award, Science of Eradication - Malaria, Harvard University, USA