Daniel Kojo Arhinful is a Senior Research Fellow and former Head (August 2009-July 2013) of the Epidemiology Department at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), a constituent of the College of Health Sciences of the University of Ghana.  He holds a doctorate in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, where he wrote and successfully defended a thesis on the Social and Cultural Feasibility of Social Health Insurance in Ghana (2003). His undergraduate and first graduate training was in Sociology from the University of Ghana.  Daniel’s career involves principal roles as health social scientist and health systems analyst in research on health and social problems of national and international importance. His key areas of research specialisation are Access to Medicines, Social Health Insurance, Maternal and Child Health and health systems research in infectious disease such as malaria and chronic diseases such as diabetes.   He is also involved in teaching and extension services and collaborates in research work with local and foreign scientists and organizations and involved in supervision of post graduate students and training of research staff.  Some of his research work has involved interventions to find answers to “defining the poor” and “increasing the enrolment of the poor” as well as defining “client oriented quality of care” in Ghana’s national health insurance scheme.  In the area of pharmaceutical studies, he is a pioneer researcher on country pharmaceutical sector surveys in Ghana, a founding member/secretary of the International Network for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) –Ghana core group and was the senior technical advisor of the Medicines Transparency Alliance initiative pilot in Ghana.

Email address: DArhinful@noguchi.ug.edu.gh