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Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra


  • A/Prof Nana Minkah - Participant

    DS-CHANGE: Data Science for Child Health Now in Ghana (Training Faculty/Faculty Mentor)

    I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and a Principal Investigator in the Center For Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute. My research program is focused on Plasmodium parasites, the causative agents of malaria. We focus on the biology, pathogenesis, and immunology of Plasmodium parasites and the development of immune-directed interventions such as vaccines that prevent infection, disease, and onward transmission. We study the pre-erythrocytic stages of the Plasmodium life cycle (i.e., invasive sporozoite and parasite developmental stages in liver hepatocytes) in humans and animal models. We leverage classical immunological methods, omics approaches (transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics) and computational biology to identify immunological pathways that can be induced to improve malaria vaccines.