Augustina Angelina Sylverken (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, KNUST-Ghana. She is also an exceptionally motivated and innovative Senior Research Fellow at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) where she leads the One Health Virology Group.

She holds a PhD in Clinical Microbiology from the Department of Clinical Microbiology, KNUST-Kumasi. She did her post-doctoral research studies at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research into Tropical Medicine (KCCR) and the Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Germany. During this time, she focused on using state-of-the-art methodologies to study the transmission interface of emerging and reemerging viruses of zoonotic origin within the context of the One Health Concept.

Dr Sylverken’s ongoing projects are focused in the areas of One Health which involves studies on wildlife, livestock and human interactions as a proxy to viral zoonosis. She has expanded her research to include Tuberculosis and led the first Tuberculosis drug resistance survey for Ghana. She is involved in large scale multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies with teams of investigators with sponsorship from prestigious funders including the German Research Council (DFG), Global Fund, European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), African Research Excellence Fund, Medical Research Council (AREF-MRC) – UK, Royal Society – UK, the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) with the University of Surrey and the KNUST Research Fund (KReF).

Augustina is an affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences, 2016-2020 and a Fellow of the Prestigious African Research Excellence Fund’s (AREF) Excell Researcher and Leadership Development Programme. She is a strong advocate for women in Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics and a founding member of WiSTEM.Gh; a notable non-governmental organization interested in raising the next generation of women in STEM careers. She is also a member of The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing world (OWSD). She has published widely and has more than 100 publications in reputable journals to her credit. She recently found MIND (Mentoring in New Dimension) a group interested in building skills and the futures of young people. She worships at Victory Matrix Church, Lamb of God Cathedral, Lighthouse Chapel, Asokwa in Kumasi.