Elijah Paintsil
Elijah Paintsil, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Public Health & Management, Yale School of Medicine
Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases & Global Health
Dr. Paintsil is Professor of Pediatrics, of Pharmacology, of Epidemiology and of Management. He is the Chief of the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases & Global Health, Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, the Director of Pediatric AIDS Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the PI of T32 training grant (2T32AI007210-38) aimed at training physician scientists. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Pediatric Research, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, Infectious Diseases Society of North America, and Academic Pediatric Society. He serves on the Pediatric Scientist Development Program Steering Committee, the Leadership of the HHS Panel on the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Exposed and HIV-Infected Children, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Board, and as a consultant to Africa CDC on their COVID-19 mitigation efforts. In 2006, Dr. Paintsil established a bi-directional research and training initiative with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research at the U. of Ghana (Ghana-Yale Partnership for Global Health). Based on the success of the Yale-Ghana collaboration, the program was expanded in 2009 to include additional partner institutions, the U. of Sao Paolo (Brazil) and King Saud U. (Saudi Arabia) and, in 2014, the U. of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica—Yale Partnerships for Global Health.These five universities comprise a global consortium dedicated to collaborative research and training in infectious diseases.
Recommended related readings:
Sam-Agudu, N. A., Paintsil, E., Aliyu, M. H., Kwara, A., Ogunsola, F., Afrane, Y. A., … Ezeanolue, E. E. (2017). Building Sustainable Local Capacity for Global Health Research in West Africa. Annals of Global Health, 82(6), 1010–1025. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2016.10.011