Daniel Kojo Arhinful is a Senior Research Fellow and former Head (2009-2013) of the Department of Epidemiology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Scineces, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra Ghana. He is a social scientist with a speciality in medical anthropology. His primary research interest is health systems and key areas of specialization are access to medicines including supply chain and pricing, maternal and child health, social health insurance, infectious and non-communicable diseases in African populations. He has led and participated in several research projects ranging from formative to intervention and evaluation/assessment studies with local and foreign partners.

Among his previous and recent studies involve finding answers to “increasing the enrolment and improving the quality care in the NHIS in Ghana, accelerating progress towards attainment of MDG4 and 5 in Ghana through basic health systems function strengthening, assessment of diabetes care in Ghana, an innovative community-based real time tracking of under-five mortality in Northern Ghana and country pharmaceutical sector surveys in Ghana.

He is currently part of the co-investigators of the integrated bio-behavioral studies of key populations in Ghana and Sierra Lone. His research has received support from a number of funders including the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO-WOTRO, Economic and Social Research Council, The British Academy, the European Union and DANIDA. He joined Noguchi as a research Fellow in 2003 and previously worked at the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the University of Ghana Medical School as a Research Associate from 1989 to 1997.