Emeritus Professor Samuel Ofosu-Amaah (1931-2023)

Abstract

Emeritus Professor Samuel Ofosu-Amaah, who died on 22 January 2023, was highly regarded in academia, medical education, and public health. Trained as a pae-diatrician, he built a significant niche in Community Health early in his career at the University of Ghana Medical. A review of his career in the last half-century reveals a man best described as a visionary leader. The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”, are well suited to the life of Emeritus Professor Samuel Ofosu-Amaah. Dr Anarfi Asamoah-Baah (Former Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organisation and alumnus of the University of Ghana Medical School) said this about him: “Prof [Ofosu-Amaah] was a rare cocktail of brilliance, intellectual dexterity, softness, dogged determination and foresight, stammering eloquence, compassion and respect, tolerance”.