Prof. George Obeng Adjei Delivers GAAS Inaugural Lecture on Multimorbidity in Ghana
Professor George Obeng Adjei, Professor of Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology and Director of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CTCPT) at the University of Ghana Medical School, has delivered an Inaugural Lecture of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) on the theme “Precision Medicine or Evidence-Based Medicine? Addressing Multimorbidity in Ghana.”
The lecture was held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, 1 October 2026, at the Kwame Nkrumah Auditorium of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was chaired by Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi, President of GAAS.
The lecture brought together perspectives from clinical medicine, pharmacology, public health and health systems research to examine how Ghana can respond to the growing challenge of multimorbidity.
Professor Obeng Adjei noted that multimorbidity is increasingly affecting populations across the country, with important implications for healthcare utilisation, quality of life, treatment decisions and health outcomes.
A major focus of the lecture was the need for Ghana to build the infrastructure and research capacity required to move towards more personalised and integrated approaches to healthcare. Professor Obeng Adjei called for stronger connections between health facilities, research institutions, electronic health systems and disease registries, supported by appropriate governance, ethical safeguards and data protection.
Advancing AMCoRE’s Multimorbidity Research Agenda
The lecture resonates strongly with the mission of the Africa-Europe CoRE for Multimorbidity (AMCoRE), which brings together researchers across Africa and Europe to address the growing burden of multimorbidity through interdisciplinary research, innovation and evidence-informed approaches.
Professor Obeng Adjei is an AMCoRE academic co-lead, with research interests spanning clinical trials, clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenomics and the interactions between communicable and non-communicable diseases. His current research also includes precision medicine approaches to diagnostics and therapeutics in resource-constrained settings.
His lecture therefore provided an important platform for advancing dialogue around how Ghana can move beyond disease-specific approaches towards more integrated models of prevention, diagnosis and care for people living with multiple health conditions.
For AMCoRE, the lecture reinforces the importance of generating locally relevant evidence on multimorbidity while strengthening the capacity of African health systems to translate research into clinical practice and policy.
The event represents another important contribution to the national conversation on the future of healthcare in Ghana and the role of research and innovation in responding to the complex realities of multimorbidity.
AMCoRE congratulates Professor George Obeng Adjei on this distinguished academic milestone and for using the platform of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences to advance critical discussions on precision medicine, evidence-based medicine and multimorbidity in Ghana.