Mawuli Leslie Aglanu

Mawuli holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Governance from the Albert Ludwigs University – Freiburg, Germany, and a Bachelor degree in Geography and Rural Development with a minor in Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Kumasi, Ghana. He also holds postgraduate certificates in Human Health and Global Environmental Change, Team and Project Management, and The Challenges of Global Poverty.

His career has been involved in research project management and the generation of scientific evidence using operational research as implementation science via health systems and community-based research to provide pragmatic response to One Health challenges and its associated policy implications. He is experienced in stakeholder engagement, policy analysis, and research knowledge translation and uptake, with a focus on the interdisciplinary association on health at the human-animal-environmental interface.

Mawuli is currently a Research Fellow with the African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (ARNTD) at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) in Kumasi, Ghana, and is a PhD candidate at the University Medical Centre, Groningen (UMCG) at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, with his research focused on NTDs, specifically snakebite envenoming. His other current research areas with the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at KCCR include emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance with partners and collaborators in both the global south and global north.