About the grantee

Dr. Peter Kojo Quashie is the Deputy Director (Research) at WACCBIP, managing research operations, partnerships, student training, workshops, and staff. He led most of WACCBIP’s well-publicized research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quashie’s group is currently studying the impact of endemic comorbidity on West African HIV response. It leads the WACCBIP long-term HIV Infection CoHort Study -- recruiting, sampling, and characterizing HIV infection in 1000 newly diagnosed Ghanaians. Its research has focused on the West African immune system's response to SARS-Cov-2 infection and vaccination, and the role of endemic malaria.