Dr. Shaibu Osman is a Mathematician with specialization in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases with optimal control and cost effectiveness. He is a Lecturer with Department of Basic Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta region, Ghana.
Education
He had his undergraduate education from the University for Development Studies (UDS), Navrongo campus, Ghana. He obtained his Master’s degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a PhD in Mathematics (Computational option) from Pan African University, Institute for Basic Sciences Technology and Innovations (PAUISTI), Nairobi, Kenya.
Work Experience
He worked with the Ghana Education Service as a mentor and tutor at Aduman Senior High School in the Ashanti region, Ghana. Throughout this period, he specialized in teaching both Core Mathematics and Elective Mathematics. Dr. Shaibu Osman further teach and mentor students at both graduate and undergraduate levels with international teaching and research experience. He worked with the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science, Nairobi, Kenya. He supervised a number of graduate student’s projects to completion. He served as a part time lecturer with the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT, Main Campus) Nairobi, Kenya.
Science/Research Output
Dr. Osman’s main research work focuses on mathematical modelling of infectious diseases (Deterministic Models) with emphasis on transmission dynamics of infectious diseases, optimal control strategies in combating diseases and the most cost effective strategy to be employed. He has published a number of research articles in peer review journals available at Research Gate and Google Scholar. He serves as a reviewer in a number of peer review journals. Dr. Shaibu Osman conducts research in the following areas: Epidemiological Modelling, Ordinary Differential Equations, Biomathematics and Computational Mathematics.