Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo, FPSGH, FPCPHARM, MRPHARMS is a Ghanaian pharmacist and academic who has been serving as Director-General of the Ghana Standards Authority since 2017.
He was also the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance from October 2009 to June 2017.
His parents divorced when he was nine years old, and he and his mother moved to his maternal family house in Jamestown.
After his national service he gained admission to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology through the help of an anglican priest, Justice Akrofi.
[9] He has served on various local and foreign boards, some of which include; the Pharmacy Practice board of the International Pharmaceutical Federation, Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, Safety Surveillance Working Group of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Enteric and Diarrhoeal Diseases Advisory Group also under the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and CIOMS/WHO Working Group on Drug Development in Resource Poor Countries.
He published a book in 2010 titled: Healthy Secrets: A Layperson's Guide to Health Issues, 2010.