James-Paul Kretchy is a Medical Microbiologist and Public Health Scientist with specialties in tropical communicable disease epidemiology, environmental and occupational health sciences. He was a Doctoral Fellow of the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), through its Sustainable Sanitation project, jointly implemented by the University of Ghana School of Public Health, Ghana, and the University of Copenhagen School of Global Health, Denmark. He is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Central University in Accra, Ghana.