Dr. (Mrs.) Linda Batsa Debrah is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Parasitology in the Department of Clinical Microbiology at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. She is a Senior Research Fellow and currently the Principal Investigator on the TAKeOFF project that seeks to tackle the obstacles of lymphatic filariasis (LF) and podoconiosis. She has coordinated the filariasis projects at Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research into Tropical Medicine (KCCR) for about two decades. She has enormous experience in the conduct of clinical trials especially on NTDs with filariasis as the main focus.
She has several ongoing research activities sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [ http://takeoff-ntd.net], German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), German Research Foundation (DFG), European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) among others.
Dr. (Mrs.) Linda Batsa Debrah is the Scientific Coordinator of the German West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC). She a reviewer of many reputable journals including but not limited to Wellcome Trust, BioMed Central (BMC) infectious diseases , DAAD in-country/in regions applications, and a Peer Review Editor of Neglected Tropical Diseases (specialty section of Frontiers in Tropical Diseases). She has over 50 publications to her credit (ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9620-3408).