Emmanuel O.d. Addo-yobo MD, MSc, FGCP, MWACP, DTCH, MBChB

Prof Emmanuel Addo-Yobo associate professor of Child Health at the School of Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the Child Health Directorate, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana.

He established the Paediatric Asthma Clinic at KATH in 1992 to provide specialized paediatric clinical care and conduct asthma research for which he is currently the Consultant-in-charge and head of the developing Paediatric Pulmonology Unit at KATH.

Prof. Addo-Yobo has conducted a series of large field studies as Principal Investigator or Co-investigator over many years on childhood asthma in Ghana in collaboration with the North-West Lung Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom (1993-95 and 2002-04) sponsored by the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) (1993-95) and the Welcome Trust (2002-04), from which a number of novel publications on childhood asthma epidemiology in West Africa emerged. He was a co-investigator for the ISAAC Phase Two Studies in Ghana which were conducted with the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) in collaboration with the North-West Lung Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom. He has also been involved as Site Principal Investigator for USAID and WHO sponsored international multi-centre collaborative research on treatment options for childhood pneumonia (Amoxicillin-Penicillin Pneumonia International Study (APPIS)) and common young infant infections in developing countries (Young Infant Study (YIS)).