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Pro VC

Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo has been re-elected as the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). After polls on Tuesday, September 20, Prof. Owusu-Dabo garnered 717 votes out of the 848 valid votes cast.

After taking office in September 2020, Prof. Owusu-Dabo supported the Vice Chancellor to chalk tremendous achievements, including the University’s present position as the best in quality education in Africa and 14th globally.

He has also facilitated infrastructural developments including the establishment of a library mall and a multipurpose laboratory.

Prof. Owusu-Dabo contributed to the implementation of policies for renewable and sustainable energy promotion at KNUST.

Aside from taking high-level administrative roles in the University’s management, Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo is a Consultant Public Health Physician, University Teacher, and Researcher. As a Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, his area of expertise is in Medical Epidemiology and applied public health technologies. As a university teacher, he has trained undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as mentoring young faculty at both local and international levels. 

He is a demonstrable, experienced, and astute university administrator, an ethically-sound industry leader, and a research project management consultant. He is highly driven in his research interest area, mainly non-communicable diseases in low-income country settings. He also has considerable interest in population genomics of pulmonary tuberculosis.

The College of Health Sciences congratulates Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo on his re-election as the Pro Vice-Chancellor of KNUST and wishes him the very best in his tenure.