Name: David Ofori-Adjei
Professional Title: Professor
Academic Qualification: Dr. (MB., ChB.)
Date of Birth: 15nd April, 1949
Birth Place: Ghana
Nationality: Ghananian
Publications: 58 Original research papers in international journals with impact factor > 1.0                                              Selected Publications (5):
1.Afari E.A., Akanmori B.D., Nakano T., Ofori-Adjei, D. Plasmodium falciparum : sensitivity to chloroquine in vivo in three ecological zones in Ghana. Transactions of the Royal Society of Trop Med & Hyg. 1992;86:231-232
2.Ofori-Adjei, D and Parr SN. Halofantrine for malaria in Ghana. J Pharm Med 1992 ;2:229-240
3.Ofori-Adjei, D, Adjepon-Yamoah K.K. and Lindstrom B. Praziquantel kinetics in normal and schistosoma haematobium infected subjects. Ther Drug on it 1988;10:45-49.
4.Ofori-Adjei, D, Commey J.O.O. and Adjepon-Yamoah K.K. Chloroquine levels in children before treatment for malaria.Lancet 1984;i:1246.
5.Ofori-Adjei, D, Ericsson O., Hermansson J., Lindstrom B. Adjepon-Yamoah K.K., Sjoqvist F. Enantioselective analysis of chloroquine and desethylchloroquine after administration of Racemic Chloroquine. Ther Drug Monit 1986;8(4):457-461

Write Up. Professor Ofori-Adjei graduated in 1975 from the University of Ghana Medical School after attending Mfantsipim School. Following postgraduate training in Ghana and Edinburgh, he returned home in 1982 and joined the University of Ghana.
Since then he has spent his entire carrier life in Ghana extending the frontiers of knowledge and contributing to academic as well as national and international health development.His main areas of research are clinical pharmacology,pharmacogenetics, infectious diseases (particularly malaria, schistosomiasis and lately Buruli ulcer and HIV/AIDS) and public sector pharmaceutical management. He has taught, done research and offered considerable service always seeing things in a broad national and international perspective. He has contributed immensely to the development of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Ghana Medical School and made the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics famous for its work on the promotion of rational use of medicines. His contribution to Clinical Pharmacology was recognised by his election to the Council of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology of the IUPHAR (International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology) in the year 2000. He was one of the supervisors who guided the first two candidates to obtain the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians by examination. He has worked in diverse ways to support the national effort to control malaria. This was done by working seamlessly with the malaria control programme in Ghana and with WHO.
He was also instrumental in the introduction of the concept of the Rational Use of Drugs in Ghana and the development of the National Essential Drugs List with Therapeutic Guidelines since the late 1980s. Subsequently he promoted the development of evidence-based treatment guidelines from which Ghana now derives its list of Essential Medicines; a list of great importance to the National Health Insurance Scheme. Internationally, he helped found the International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) of which he continues to be a very active member. He has successfully drawn to this network a group of young Ghanaian physicians, pharmacists and social scientists who are all contributing in no small way to the advancement of the quality use of medicines. His name is synonymous with INRUD in Ghana! In addition to his contribution to the pharmaceutical sector in Ghana, he has made his expertise available to international bodies like the World Health Organisation as a member of a number of Expert Groups or Panel. He served on the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention as a member-at-large and also on the International Health Advisory Panel for a period of ten years.
Since his appointment to the University of Ghana Medical School his contribution to tropical diseases research and clinical pharmacology has resulted in many scientific publications and presentations at conferences. His keen interest in computing has resulted in a software for studying prescription in addition to contributing to two WHO manuals on pharmaco-epidemiology. As the current Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research his characteristic zeal in building research excellence is demonstrated in the changes occurring at the Institute, physically and scientifically.
He has been an advocate of effective dissemination and utilisation of research findings. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Medical Journal (GMJ) and serve on the Editorial Committee of the Lancet Infectious Diseases. He is currently involved in an initiative that seeks to improve the quality of African medical journals through the Forum of African Medical Editors (FAME) whose Board of Trustees he is a member.
He has also been involved in another initiative that partners the GMJ to the Lancet.