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Dr Isaac Dennis Amoah
Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology
Research, Innovation and Engagement
Dennis Amoah is an Environmental Microbiologists, with specific focus on health-related water microbiology.
He obtained a PhD in Health Sciences from the Durban University of Technology in 2018 and is currently employed as Research Associate in the Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology. He has extensive expertise working on several research projects focusing on health risk assessment, wastewater-based epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), water/ wastewater reuse and waterborne parasites. He has been instrumental in initiating numerous research projects in these areas,
helped secure research funding, coordinated and led various projects in this regard. He is a recipient of the 2019 Willie Grabow Young Investigator award from the Health-related Water microbiology Specialist Group of the International Water Association and other institutional awards. He has published over 46 papers, presented at 13 international and nationalconferences.DrAmoahisaninvited reviewer for several journals, the Water Research Commission of South Africa and the National Research Foundation.
“He is a recipient of the 2019 Willie Grabow Young Investigator award from the Health-related Water microbiology Specialist Group of the International Water Association and other institutional awards.”
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