Network contributor · Sierra Leone

Prof Osman Sankoh

Executive Director · CHaRT–Sierra Leone

Centre for Health Research and Training (CHaRT–Sierra Leone)

Biostatistics & epidemiologyHealth & demographic surveillanceResearch capacity

Portrait of Prof Osman Sankoh — Portrait: CESMEL Health ↗

Scientific background & experience

Biography

Population health and research institutions

Osman Sankoh is Executive Director of the Centre for Health Research and Training in Sierra Leone and Chair of the Board of CESMEL Health. His professional background combines statistics, epidemiology and public health with the development of research institutions and partnerships. These interests connect the analysis of population data with the infrastructure and expertise needed to generate reliable evidence. 1, 4

Experience in surveillance networks

Sankoh led the INDEPTH Network from 2007 to 2018, working with research centres that operated health and demographic surveillance sites across Africa, Asia and the Pacific. He later served as Sierra Leone’s Statistician General, with that term ending in March 2023. His earlier leadership also included an acting Vice-Chancellor and Principal appointment at Njala University from April 2020 to June 2021. 3, 5

Connection with CHEERS

Sankoh is a coauthor of the 2023 CHEERS framework publication, which sets out how existing population surveillance can be extended to climate-related exposures and adaptation research. His contribution connects CHEERS with a wider history of collaboration across longitudinal population-research sites. His profile brings experience in biostatistics, epidemiology and the development of collaborative population-health research infrastructure to these scientific connections. 6

Projects & research connections

Projects and research contributions

Scientific network connection

CHEERS scientific framework ↗

Coauthor of the 2023 CHEERS framework publication

Contribution source ↗

Authored publications

Selected publications

These selected papers list Prof Osman Sankoh as an author. Labels distinguish the CHEERS and connected-research library from selected wider scholarship.

2023Authored publication · Reviewed collectionMethods

Widening the lens of population-based health research to climate change impacts and adaptation: the climate change and health evaluation and response system (CHEERS) ↗

Frontiers in Public Health

Introduces the modular CHEERS framework linking population surveillance, environmental measurements and individual health data.

Published authors

Sandra Barteit; Ali Sié; Pascal Zabré; I Traoré; Windpanga Aristide Ouédraogo; Valentin Boudo; Stephen Munga; Sammy Khagayi; David Obor; Erick Muok; Jonas Franke; Maximilian Schwarz; Klaus Blass; Tin Tin Su; Till Bärnighausen; Osman Sankoh; Rainer Sauerborn

Study notes ↗Published author record ↗

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This is a selected research bibliography. The institutional profile provides further information about the researcher’s work.

Profile references

Sources and updates

Profile reviewed 12 November 2026. Suggest an update ↗

Network resources & exchange

Related resources and exchange

Workshops & programme contributions

Expanding the HDSS approach

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