One of the inaugural awardees, Dr. Ethel Osei-Tutu of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, used her award to identify the knowledge, attitudes, and practices with regard to typhoid fever and to identify chronic carriers of the disease in Elmina, Ghana. Elmina sits in the central region of Ghana, an area where some of the highest incidences of typhoid fever have been recorded in recent years.
Dr. Osei-Tutu recently completed her final report, which includes summaries of both the community-based survey on knowledge and attitudes and the diagnostic study on stool sample cultures. You may her full report here (PDF).
Dr. Ethel Osei-Tutu:
A study on typhoid fever in Elmina in the Central Region of Ghana