Dr. John Arko-Mensah is an Immunologist by training and currently serves as the Head of the Department of Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, as well as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon.
His research focuses on the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, and on autophagy as an innate immune mechanism that restricts intracellular pathogens.
Over the past six years, Dr. Arko-Mensah has been actively involved in the GEOHealth II Project in West Africa, which examines the health impacts of electronic waste (e-waste) recycling at Agbogbloshie, Ghana.
He is an affiliate of the West Africa Centre for Global Environmental and Occupational Health (WAC-GEOHealth)
