David Ofori-Adjei

He was appointed as a council member at the Committee on Publication Ethics with a term from 2017 to 2010; he is the only council member from Africa.

He was elected to the Council of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology of the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in 2000, serving until 2006. Ofori-Adjei has promoted the Rational Use of Drugs in Ghana and the development of a National Essential Drugs List with Therapeutic Guidelines in association with the Ministry of Health. He served on the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention and the International Health Advisory Panel for 10 years.

Ofori-Adjei was the director of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana from 1 December 1998 until 30 September 2006.

He became a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in 1983, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1994, a Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Member of New York Academy of Sciences in 1997.

In 1982, Ofori-Adjei joined the University of Ghana as a lecturer in medicine and therapeutics at the Department of Medicine and the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology.

After completing his secondary education at the Mfantsipim School, in Cape Coast, Ghana, he enrolled at the University of Ghana Medical School in 1969 and graduated in 1975 with a MBChB. He then completed his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, and in Scotland.

David Ofori-Adjei (born 15 April 1949) is a Ghanaian physician, medical researcher, academic and medical journal editor. His main areas of research are clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, infectious diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis, Buruli ulcer, and HIV/AIDS and public sector pharmaceutical management. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Medical Journal.