Yet another wave of excellence from KHRC: Dr. Sam Newton Congratulated.

The Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) is one of the three field research centres of the Health Research Unit of the Ghana Health Service established in 1994. In its quest to being a centre of excellence in health research, KHRC has given a lot of attention to building the capacity of its staff. Notable among such moves is the recent excellent performance by one of its staff, Dr. Sam Newton who was sponsored to do his PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Below is an extract from the 18th edition of the Chariot, the newsletter of the London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine which featured an article entitled “School’s first distance learning PhD student in Epidemiology congratulated on ‘Excellent’ thesis.”

Dr. Sam Newton, a clinical research fellow at KHRC, became the school’s first distance learning PhD student in Epidemiology in July 2004, under the supervision of Prof. Betty Kirkwood (NPHIRU) – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Dr. Seth Owusu-Agyei of KHRC. His topic “Randomised controlled trial assessing the impact of vitamin A supplementation on the immune responses to hepatitis B and Haemophilus Influenzae type b vaccines among young infants in Ghana” was completed in October 2007 and his thesis was judged excellent by his examiners, Prof. Andrew Tomkins of UCL and DR. Christine Stabell Benn of the Statens Serum institute in Denmark.