Rutgers GSE CMSI

Sampson Akwafuo

Sampson Akwafuo is an Assistant Professor of Computational Epidemiology at the California State University, Fullerton. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas; M.S. from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK; and a B.Tech from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.

His research interests include Health Informatics, Computational Epidemiology, Algorithm development and optimization. He is currently working on developing computational models for predicting outbreaks of specific disease in a location of interest, evaluating public health strategies and interventions for HIV/TB, and optimization of emergency response logistics for disasters.