Bio
BIO
Wutor is a PhD student in the Global Health and Development program at the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University. Before starting the program, he worked as a research clinician at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he coordinated several infectious disease vaccine trials. He worked on the implementation of pneumococcal and HPV vaccine schedule trials, as well as observational studies focused on invasive bacterial disease surveillance. He also coordinated under-five mortality surveillance and cause-of-death determination in rural Gambia. His research interests include understanding under-five mortality and the contextual factors that contribute to it, infectious disease surveillance, and vaccine trials.
Wutor trained as a medical doctor in Ghana before transitioning to research in The Gambia and obtaining a master’s degree in infectious diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
EDUCATION
BSc (Human Biology), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
MBChB, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
MSc (Infectious Diseases), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Areas of Interest
- Maternal and Child Health
- Infectious Disease
- Immunizations/Vaccines
- Community Based Research
- Global Health
- Implementation Science