Shadrack Osei Frimpong is a global health leader and academic whose work explores the science and practice of engagement in medicine and public health. Fueled by his background in rural Ghana, Frimpong is a triple threat to the problems his efforts address: he’s lived through them (from birth), studied them, and taken them on.
With years of experience founding and leading Cocoa360 - an award-winning global health non-profit, Shadrack founded Mundaly, a global impact reporting platform that rewards health coverage for communities of color.
For his efforts, Frimpong has received many awards including the prestigious Samuel Huntington Public Service Award, Forbes 30 under 30 list of top social entrepreneurs around the world, the Clinton Foundation’s CGIU Honor Roll, and the Muhammad Ali Award, which recognizes six global activists who work towards social change under age thirty. HRM Queen Elizabeth II has also awarded him the Queen’s Young Leader Award at Buckingham Palace.
Frimpong holds master's degrees from Penn (MS, Non-Profit Leadership) and Yale (Advanced MPH, Global Health). He graduated from both schools with top academic prizes. He also holds a Ph.D. in Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Beyond his peer-reviewed publications, he has also provided expertise on community engagement in public health and medicine by working with UNICEF and WHO to co-author evidence-based frameworks on global health issues.
In July 2023, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Holloway, University of London - making him the youngest Ghanaian to receive an Honorary Doctorate.
He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Medicine Degree(M.D) from the Yale School of Medicine.
Shadrack is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine.