John Humphrey Amuasi, MBChB., MPH., MS., PhD., FWACP.,  is head of the Global Health Department of the School of Public Health at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, where he is an Associate Professor of Global Health, and holds a W2 Professorship in Global One Health at the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine (BNITM), University of Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany – where he leads the Global One Health Research Group.

Prof. Amuasi is also Leader of the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR). He is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK. For over 20 years, Prof. Amuasi has engaged in tropical medicine and global health research in low-and middle-income countries - including in malaria, neglected tropical diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and One Health. He has authored/co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications, consulted for several Global Health-focused organizations, and supported civil society organizations with technical expertise on matters related to access to drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, as well as strategic advice related to Global Health research priorities.

Prof. Amuasi further serves as Co-Chair of The Lancet One Health Commission together with Prof. Andrea Winkler and is a regular technical advisor/contributor to the WHO, Africa CDC, African Academy of Sciences, IPBES, and several other Global Health organizations on a wide range of global health subjects.

Prof. Amuasi is passionate about mentorship and sustainably building both clinical and non-clinical health research capacities in low- and middle-income countries using One Health approaches.