Prof. Julius N. Fobil is the Director of the West Africa Centre for Global Environmental and Occupational Health (WAC-GEOHealth) and a Professor at the School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. He is an accomplished environmental health scientist with extensive academic, research, and administrative experience spanning over two decades.
He has served in several key leadership roles within the University of Ghana, including Provost of the College of Health Sciences (2021–2024), Dean of the School of Public Health (2019–2021), and Head of the Department of Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (2012–2020). Prof. Fobil has also held research positions at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, and contributed significantly to advancing environmental and occupational health research in West Africa.
His scholarly work focuses on environmental exposure, public health, and the health effects of informal electronic waste recycling. He has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals, including studies on air pollution, toxic exposures, and occupational health risks associated with e-waste recycling in Ghana.
Prof. Fobil’s research leadership continues to influence policy and practice in environmental health, with a strong commitment to capacity building and collaborative science across Africa and beyond.
