Professor Hannah Akuffo
Senior Research Advisor at the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and Adjunct Professor at Karolinska Institutet
Biography
Professor Hannah Akuffo, ESSENCE Co-Chair, worked with research capacity strengthening at Sida since 1999, first on Uganda, then heading the University Research Support unit. She is an adjunct Professor of Parasitology at the Karolinska Institutet. For Prof Akuffo its passion and conviction that research capacity is key for continued possibilities for countries to define and address their own questions. She is the current Chair of the Joint Coordinating Board (JCB) of TDR and represents Sweden in the EDCTP General Assembly since its initiation and was its Chairperson 2010 to 2013. She is an Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.