David Ofori Adjei

David Ofori-Adjei (born April 15, 1949) is a prominent Ghananian physician and medical researcher. A graduate of the University of Ghana Medical School and University of Edinburgh he has written 58 original research papers in international journals. His main areas of research are clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, infectious diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis, Buruli ulcer, and HIV/AIDS and public sector pharmaceutical management. He was elected to the Council of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology of the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in 2000. Ofori-Adjei has promoted the Rational Use of Drugs in Ghana and the development of the National Essential Drugs List with Therapeutic Guidelines since the late 1980s. He served on the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention and the International Health Advisory Panel for ten years. He is currently the Director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Medical Journal.