AMCoRE’s Pioneering ARUA–Carnegie–Mastercard Early Career Research Fellows Complete Their Fellowships
The Africa–Europe Cluster of Research Excellence for Multimorbidity (AMCoRE) celebrates the completion of its inaugural ARUA–Carnegie–Mastercard Early Career Research Fellowships by Dr Evans Duah and Dr Ntsako Ishmael Chauke in September 2026.
Through the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Mastercard Foundation, the two early-career researchers were awarded six-month fellowships commencing in April 2026. The fellowships were hosted at two AMCoRE partner institutions: the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CTCPT), University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana, and the Centre for Development and Implementation of Point-of-Care Diagnostics (CPOC-Dx), University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Dr Evans Duah was hosted at CTCPT by Prof. George Obeng-Adjei, while Dr Ntsako Ishmael Chauke was hosted at CPOC-Dx by Prof. Tivani Mashamba-Thompson. Prof. Obeng-Adjei and Prof. Mashamba-Thompson are co-leads of AMCoRE.
Dr Evans Duah
Dr Evans Duah is a Public Health and Implementation Science researcher whose work focuses on point-of-care diagnostics, integrated testing, diagnostic service delivery models in primary healthcare, and health policy in sub-Saharan Africa. He has more than 10 years of experience in Medical Laboratory Science practice and public health research. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Ghana and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Pretoria.
Dr Duah currently supervises five Master's students and two PhD candidates across the School of Health Systems and Public Health and the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria. He has authored 33 peer-reviewed publications, with 372 citations, an h-index of 9, and an i10-index of 7, according to Google Scholar.
During his fellowship, Dr Duah focused on developing integrated testing models for multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. His fellowship contributed to a published scoping review in Tropical Medicine & International Health, titled “Integrated Screening for Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Multimorbidity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.” View publication
Dr Ntsako Ishmael Chauke
Dr Ntsako Ishmael Chauke holds a PhD in Public Health, Master of Public Health, and Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Venda, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Heritage and Museum Studies from the University of Pretoria.
With approximately six years of experience in public health research, monitoring and evaluation, and community-based research, Dr Chauke uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to examine health challenges and healthcare delivery in underserved communities. His work focuses on generating evidence to inform practical improvements in access to care.
As an AMCoRE Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Chauke focused on point-of-care diagnostics for multimorbidity, with his current research exploring integrated HIV and sexually transmitted infection testing for adolescents in low-resource settings, including approaches to making testing more accessible and acceptable to young people.
Looking Ahead
As Dr Duah and Dr Chauke conclude their fellowships, AMCoRE recognises their contributions to the cluster's research agenda and the opportunities created through the ARUA–Carnegie–Mastercard fellowship programme.
Their fellowship projects have strengthened research capacity, fostered collaboration across African institutions, and contributed to AMCoRE's broader goal of developing evidence-based, integrated approaches to multimorbidity and diagnostic care in African health systems.
AMCoRE looks forward to seeing both fellows build on the knowledge, collaborations, and research outputs developed during their fellowships and to continuing their engagement with the Africa–Europe research community.