Dr. Obed Kwabena Offe Amponsah Pharm.D, PhD

Obed Kwabena Offe Amponsah is a Ghanaian clinical pharmacist and academic whose work focuses on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection prevention and control. He serves as a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, contributes as a facilitator to national and international stewardship capacity-building programmes, and provides consultancy support to hospitals on implementing practical stewardship and quality-improvement interventions. His responsibilities include project design and delivery, guideline development, monitoring and evaluation, and training of multidisciplinary teams to strengthen medicines use and patient safety.

His experience spans academia, hospital and community pharmacy, and national collaborations. He has held roles as researcher, tutor and demonstrator in pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacist at a university hospital, community pharmacist, and superintendent pharmacist. He mentors stewardship implementers through the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship and supports national tele-mentoring initiatives under the Ministry of Health. In parallel, he contributes to scholarly dissemination and research quality as an academic editor and journal reviewer across multiple international platforms.

Academically, he holds a Doctor of Pharmacy and a PhD in Clinical Pharmacy with additional graduate-level training in health economics, epidemiology, pharmacometrics, implementation science, and leadership and management in health. His research and publications cover antibiotic consumption and prescribing quality in Ghanaian hospitals, stewardship and infection-control assessments, health-worker safety, and pragmatic approaches to optimizing antimicrobial use. He has mobilised competitive funding to support stewardship centres of excellence, pharmacovigilance strengthening, and hospital-based quality-improvement projects, working with local and international partners.

He is registered and active within professional networks including the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana and international societies in antimicrobial chemotherapy, infectious diseases, and microbiology. Across teaching, service and research, his aim is to embed evidence-based, systems-oriented stewardship that improves clinical outcomes, protects antimicrobial effectiveness, and builds sustainable capacity within Ghana’s health system.

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