Daniel Opoku

Dr. Daniel Opoku is a Lecturer at the School of Public Health, KNUST with academic and research experience in health systems and policies and a special interest in digital health, health care innovations, evidence-based health policy, health technology assessment (HTA) and Africa. He is also a Postdoctoral Fellow for Health Systems Digitalization at the Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology in Germany. Dr. Opoku has been involved in several international collaborations, working with reputable institutions and with funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Ministry of Health (BMG), the European Union (EU), and the Dutch Organisation for Internationalisation in Education (NUFFIC), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) among others. He also serves as an Expert Consultant to the World Health Organization on Health Systems and Policies in Africa. He has extensive experience of coordinating multi-country implementation research to assess the impact of introducing and scaling up interventions via different delivery strategies. Dr. Opoku is currently the foundation Group Leader of the BMBF funded eHealth Research Partner Group at the KNUST and continues to coordinate research and capacity development in public health.