Fortress Yayra Aku is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health of the University of Health and Allied Sciences. She teaches and examines courses in public health surveillance, principles of epidemiology, principles of field epidemiology, principles of disease control, scientific communication, outbreak investigation among others. She supervises undergraduate students and serves as a mentor to trainees (frontline and advanced levels) of the Ghana Field Epidemiology Training Programme (GFETP) of the University of Ghana, Legon.
Education She obtained her first degree in BSc. Medical Laboratory Technology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She also holds an MPhil in Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control from the University of Ghana.
Work Experience She supervises undergraduate students and serves as a mentor to trainees (frontline and advanced levels) of the Ghana Field Epidemiology Training Programme (GFETP) of the University of Ghana, Legon.
Science / Research Output Her research interest is in the areas of communicable and non-communicable diseases, infection prevention and control, antimicrobial resistance, maternal and child health, community interventional studies among others.
Selected Publications
Aku FY, Lessa FC, Asiedu-Bekoe F, et al. Meningitis Outbreak caused by Vaccine-Preventable Bacterial Pathogens-Northern Ghana, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017; 66:806-810
Aku, F.Y., Akweongo, P., Nyarko, K., Sackey, S., Wurapa, F., Afari, E. A., Kenu, E. (2018). Bacteriological profile and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of common isolates of neonatal sepsis, Ho Municipality, Ghana-2016. Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology 2018 4: 2. (Read more...)
Parbey, P. A., Tarkang, E., Manu, E., Amu, H., Ayanore, M. A., Aku, F. Y., ... & Kweku, M. (2019). Risk Factors of Anaemia among Children under Five Years in the Hohoe Municipality, Ghana: A Case Control Study. Anemia, 2019.
Awuni, B., Tarkang, E., Manu, E., Amu, H., Ayanore, M. A., Aku, F. Y., & Kweku, M. (2019). Dog Owners’ Knowledge about Rabies and Other Factors That Influence Canine Anti-Rabies Vaccination in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 4, no. 3: 115.