Our team

Dr Margaret Gyapong | Excecutive Director (IIDP)

Margaret is a Medical Anthropologist by training and a Deputy Director in the Ghana Health Service. She has an interest in health systems, implementation...

Professor Daniel Reidpath | Director Of Public Health

Prof. Reidpath has been a Public Health academic since 1997, although his disciplinary background was originally in Computer...

Professor Pascale Allotey | Associate Director Of Public Health

Prof. Allotey has professional training in public health, epidemiology and medical anthropology.  Her research has focused on marginalized populations and the effects of marginalizing factors...

Dr Abdoulaye Djimdé | Deputy Executive Director of IIDP

Abdoulaye Djimdé is Deputy Executive Director of IIDP on the Wellcome Trust Grant for capacity building into diseases of poverty in West Africa.

Dr Djimdé received a PharmD degree from...

Dr Blanca Escribano | Scientific Officer (IIDP)

Blanca is a medical doctor with an MSc in Tropical Medicine and in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

 

During the last 12 years, she has...

Dr Sara Melville
Dr Sara Melville | Co-PI of IIDP and IAE Convenor

Sara Melville trained in a School of Agriculture, with a special interest in genetics. Although she began her career focussing on plant science and the genetics of crop plants, she has worked in...

Doreen Akrong | Finance Officer

Doreen Akrong is a Principal Accountant. She is the head of the Finance Section of the Research and Development Division (RDD) of the Ghana Health Service, currently assigned to the IIDP...

Professor Ayoade M J Oduola recently retired as Coordinator for Stewardship and Capacity Building for Research at the Special Program for Research and Training on Tropical Diseases at the World...