Hamid, A-Wahab Mawuko is a professional Biomedical Scientist, with Clinical Laboratory Technology as a background and Molecular Microbiology as a specialization. Currently, he is a faculty member and research laboratory coordinator at the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences (SAHS), University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS).
Education
He had his Medical Laboratory Technology education at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. He later studied Biomedical Science at master’s level at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and further studied Medical Microbiology (PhD) at the University of Ghana in collaboration with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel in Switzerland.
Work Experience
He practiced as a clinical laboratory technologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra for one year. He later accepted a Ghana Health Service’s posting to serve in the rural localities, where he worked at the War Memorial Hospital for 2 years and Navrongo Health Research Center for 13 years in the Upper East Region of Northern Ghana. During this period, he worked as Laboratory Technologist on a number of bench- and field based research projects. He served as a Laboratory manager on a number of major policy impact clinical trials including the Rota virus vaccines and meningitis conjugate vaccine projects. His PhD project was on “Cerebrospinal meningitis in Northern Ghana: The molecular epidemiology and predictability of meningococcal outbreaks”.
Science/Research Output
His research interest area is the Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Ghana.