Kinako Denis Elia Dazangapai is a trained medical laboratory scientist and early-career healthcare researcher specialising in molecular diagnostics, infectious disease genomics, and public health surveillance. He currently works as a research assistant at the Genomics and Infectious Disease Laboratory at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, under the supervision of Dr Michael Owusu, head of the Department of Medical Diagnostics. His work focuses on strengthening infectious disease detection and surveillance systems through molecular diagnostics, genomic epidemiology, and environmental pathogen monitoring. Kinako has hands-on experience in PCR, next-generation sequencing, microscopy, genomic data analysis, and AI-assisted diagnostic tools, and he contributes to research that supports pandemic preparedness in resource-limited settings. At KNUST, he is involved in projects examining antimicrobial resistance and the genomic characterisation of pathogens, including whole-genome sequencing of Klebsiella pneumoniae. He also contributes to studies evaluating virus concentration and nucleic acid extraction methods for wastewater-based epidemiology.