Presenter:
Kofi A. Kondwani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Director of Cultural Competency Programs

Kofi A. Kondwani, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia  USA. 

He is the Course Director for the Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Inter-Cultural Communication and Health electives.  Dr. Kondwani chairs the Morehouse School of Medicine Global Health Task Force charged with organizing and developing international health initiatives for the School.  

Dr. Kondwani received his Ph.D. in Psychophysiology from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa.  Dr. Kondwani has served as the meditation treatment provider in four randomized clinical control trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and the National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  His research team at MSM in collaboration with PROMETRA International is developing a herbal microbicide from herbs received from Traditional Healers in West Africa.  He recently received a full scholarship to present preliminary findings at the 2008 Microbicide International Conference in India.  

This year, Dr. Kondwani also served as Chair of the 2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS: Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge in Ghana and represented MSM in an effort initiated by the James R. Jordan Foundation to build a women and children’s hospital in Nairobi Kenya.