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Dr. Nancy O. Duah Quashie
BSc, MPhil, PhD, DLSHTM
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noquashie@ug.edu.gh; nduah@yahoo.com

Roles

  1. Senior Research Fellow Department of Epidemiology
  2. Chair, NMIMR COVID-19 Data Management Committee
  3. Faculty Member, WACCBIP
  4. Member of Secretariat, Pan African Vivax and Ovale Network (PAVON)

Focus of Work

  1. Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
  2. Antimalaria Drug Resistance
  3. Parasite-parasite communication with extracellular vesicles 
  4. Host and parasite genetics of non-falciparum malaria
  5. Parasitology and genetics of enteric parasitic diarrheal infections

Current projects 

  1. Determinants of P. vivax and P. ovale infections in Ghana. 
  2. Surveillance of antimalarial drug resistance in Ghana 
  3. Characterisation of molecular markers of antimalarial drug resistance. 
  4. Tracking malaria positivity rates in Ghana.
  5. Role of P. falciparum extracellular vesicles in antimalaria drug resistance 
  6. Molecular investigation of diarrheal causing parasites in animals and humans in Ghana.

Publications

National Center For Biotechnology Information 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1vI8yri6xi2EIe/bibliography/public/