SCIENTIST.
LECTURER.
LEADER.
“A rare combination of an academic and a practitioner. He’s going to change the world.”
Dr. Amy GutmannU.S Ambassador to Germany, and formerly, President of the University of Pennsylvania
“An excellent embodiment of youth leadership.”
Kofi AnnanFormer United Nations Secretary General

Community-focused.

Shadrack with his parents in front of his childhood home
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Studied it.

Graduation Pic with Amy Gutmann
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Locally celebrated.

Shadrack with Lucy Quist, David Adjaye, etc
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Globally recognized.

Shadrack with HRM Queen Elizabeth
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IMPACT

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Dr. Shadrack Osei Frimpong is a global leader and academic whose work explores the science and practice of engagement in public health, medicine, and international development.

He holds master’s degrees from Penn (MS, Non-Profit Leadership) and Yale (Advanced MPH, Global Health) and a Ph.D. in Public Health and Primary Care from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Currently, he is pursuing an MD at the Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Frimpong is a recipient of the prestigious Samuel Huntington Public Service Award, Forbes 30 under 30 list of top social entrepreneurs around the world, the Clinton Foundation’s CGIU Honor Roll, and the Muhammad Ali Award, which recognizes six global activists who work towards social change under age thirty. HRM Queen Elizabeth II has also awarded him the Queen’s Young Leader Award at Buckingham Palace.

Dr. Frimpong also holds an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Royal Holloway, University of  London.

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