Yaw Afrane

Yaw Asare Afrane is a Professor of Vector Biology and Parasitology from the University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana. His research and mentoring activities focus on malaria and arboviral vector biology, ecology and epidemiology. He also uses mathematical models to predict the dynamics and control of malaria and arboviruses, to support policy development. He is the Director of the Centre for Vector-borne Diseases Research, a training program funded by the US National Institute of Health (NIH: D43 TW011513), that seeks to train PhD, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty in vector-borne diseases. He is the Program Director of a Gates Foundation–funded (INV-047051) training initiative focused on building capacity in infectious disease modelling dubbed “West African Mathematical Modelling Capacity Development Consortium (WAMCAD)”. He is also the Principal Investigator (PI) of an NIH-funded (R01AI123074) research grant on the ecology and genetics of insecticide resistance in African malaria vectors. He has 135 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has a strong interest in training young African scientists and have supervised 15 PhDs, 3 Postdoctoral fellows, 7 Junior faculties and several masters level students in the last 15 years. He is a member of the WHO’s Vector Control Working Group. He excels in advancing vector control interventions and disease surveillance.