Mr. Jonathan Jato is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacognosy and Herbal Medicine, School of Pharmacy. He is a registered pharmacist, a member of the Ghana Pharmaceutical Society (PSGH), the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), and the CommonWealth Association of Pharmacists (CPA).
Education
Mr. Jato is currently a PhD student at the Department of Pharmacognosy of the KNUST. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Pharmacognosy and Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm Hons.) both degrees also from the KNUST, Kumasi. Mr. Jato is also a certified member of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (MPCPharm). He had his basic and post-basic secondary education in Saboba in the Northern Region of Ghana.
Work Experience
Mr. Jato has been teaching in the Department of Pharmacognosy since 2016. As a pharmacist, he has superintended many Community Pharmacies in and around Kumasi and was a part-time lecturer at G-Health Consult, a Medicine Counter Assistants’ training school in Kumasi from 2013 to 2016. He was a research assistant at the Department of Pharmacognosy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and also volunteered as an assistant research fellow at the KNUST Central Laboratory.
Mr. Jato is currently the finance officer and a member of Nterm-Ghana (a health, educational, and social development NGO based in Saboba).
He also founded a community-led day care centre in his hometown, Saboba which is focused on getting every child into school. He has been part of the youth movement; Sages-Gaana which champions public education on health and developmental issues.
Science /Research output
His research areas include
- Anti-infective agents including antimalarial, anti-helminthic and antibacterial agents from natural sources.
- Fight against antimicrobial resistance and promotion of antimicrobial stewardship programs
- Standardization and quality assessment of herbal formulations
Mr. Jato has been part of a number of research projects including the on-going CommonWealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) between University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho Teaching Hospital and University College London Hospitals (UK). He also won a UHAS Research Fund grant in 2019 to conduct research into antimalarial agents from plants.
He was part of a Qualitative Assessment of the Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy research project at the KNUST and have experience in the use of state-of-the-art equipment like the 500mHz NMR spectrometer, TOF LC-MS, GC-MS, UHPLC, AAS, etc.
He has participated in international and local conferences and research seminars and has seven co-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals, five conference presentations and two newspaper articles.
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