William (Bill) Effah is a physician-scientist with a decade of experience in clinical, field and academic health care in the United States and internationally. His work is focused on developing scalable, cost-effective and innovative health strategies and technology tools for managing infectious and chronic diseases in low-resource settings. 

Before joining the School of Public Health, Effah taught public health and epidemiology courses at the Brown School, and served as the senior manager for international research at WashU Medicine’s Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics. In this role, he coordinated a large research initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to integrate hypertension care into existing HIV care models across six African countries, directly addressing critical public health challenges related to chronic disease management in resource-limited settings.  

Effah also previously worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Global HIV and TB in Malawi, where he developed surveillance training programs, created dashboards to track COVID-19 trends, and enhanced HIV-surveillance efforts focused on estimating how recently individuals had been infected with the virus.  

Effah earned his MD at the University of Ghana, his MPH at the Brown School with a specialization in global health, and his MBA at WashU Olin Business. He is a McDonnell Scholar, a Kahn Family Fellow and an inductee of the Delta Omega National Honorary Society in Public Health. 

Areas of focus:

  • Global health 
  • Infectious and chronic disease epidemiology 
  • Implementation science 
  • Health systems research 
  • Organizational leadership and strategy 

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