Affiliateship: 2019-20123
Cohort 4
Country (Nationality)
Ghana
Discipline
Medical & Health Sciences
Bio
de Souza is a senior research fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Ghana in 2003 and his PhD in Biological Sciences from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2011.
His interests are in Lymphatic filariasis (LF), Neglected Tropical Diseases, medical entomology, molecular biology of disease vectors and parasites. Currently, his main research focus involves assessing the transmission of Lymphatic Filariasis, using molecular xenomonitoring methods. He has led studies on LF and has been involved in providing training, diagnostics, monitoring and evaluation support to less developed project countries in Africa including, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Togo.
He has published many articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and has received local and international competitive awards for young scientists, including the Bill and Melinda Gates travel awards by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (United Kingdom) and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (USA), Young Voices in Research for Health 2008 (Global Forum for Health Research, Geneva, October 2008), nomination by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences for the AU-TWAS National Young Scientist Award, participation in the 2012 World Economic Forum Young Scientists Programme in China – sponsored by the Inter-Academy Panel.
Dziedzom serves as a consultant for the Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme in Ghana, helping to develop important study and strategy documents, reviewing and analysing datasets. He also served as a member of the Ghana Trachoma Elimination Committee. Outside national programmes, Dziedzom has been a consultant for a number of international organizations.
He is fluent in English and French.