Dr. Joseph A. Frimpong

Joseph Asamoah Frimpong works with the African Field Epidemiology Network as the Global Health Security Technical Advisor and Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Programme Resident Advisor. He is an experienced senior field epidemiologist with over 15 years of experience in field of epidemiology and data management systems. His research interest includes investigations into infectious and non-infectious disease, workforce development and emergency management and response. Dr. Frimpong’s career milestones include the implementation of a structured Query Language server-based data management system for Influenza and Ebola virus disease surveillance at the Noguchi Memorial institute for Medical Research in 2010. He served as the activity manager for the establishment of sub-national public health emergency operations centers in Ghana from 2020 – 2024. He has served as resident advisor for building the capacity of over 300 field epidemiologists from 2014 to date. He has also authored the highest number of African public health case studies which are used by public health institutions globally. He also served at the activity manager for the development of a public health workforce strategic plan which his currently serves as the roadmap for building workforce capacity across all sectors of the health system in Ghana. He was part of the team that evaluated the WHO manual for estimating Influenza Disease burden in 2012. He also evaluated the influenza surveillance system in Ghana in 2012 and 2015 under the auspices of the WHO. He served as a guest editor for 11 African Case Studies in Public Health which were published in the PanAfrican Medical Journal on 28th May, 2017. He was a member of the COVID-19 Vaccine Readiness and Deployment Technical Working Group (CoVRAD-TWG) for Ghana in 2020. Dr. Frimpong has led and supported over 50 outbreak investigations of infectious disease such as Measles, Cholera, Yellow fever and facilitated over 20 capacity building workshops both locally and internationally. He also supported Ghana to develop the National Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Manual. He is a member of American Society for Microbiology (since 2012), African Field Epidemiology Network (Since 2012), Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (since 2012), African Society for Laboratory Medicine (joined in 2014) and Liberia Field Epidemiology Training Program (Since 2015).