[6] At Achimota, he won a Gold Coast medical scholarship in 1941 to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1947.
[9] A pioneering medical educator himself, he was approached by the first Ghanaian surgeon, Charles Odamtten Easmon in 1963 for a teaching professorship position in Anatomy at the then newly established University of Ghana Medical School, an offer he eventually accepted.
[14] Evans-Anfom served as the second Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from 1967 to 1973.
He chaired a myriad of committees, boards and missions, both locally and on the international scene in Africa, Europe and North America.
[9] He was president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987–90) and chairman of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
[18] Other changes implemented by the committee included grouping secondary school curricular programs into five categories: Agriculture, General Arts and Science, Business, Technical, and Vocational.
[18] Evans-Anfom had four children with his first wife Leonora Francetta Evans, a West Indian American of Bahamian descent, who he wedded on 13 December 1952 in Accra.
[2][6] Evans-Anfom was a founding member and president of the Gold Coast and Ghana Hockey Associations in 1950 and 1957 respectively.
He served as Chairman, Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture (1986–2002) and President of the Ghana Boys Brigade.
[23][24][25] In 1996, he was adjudged the "Alumnus of the Year" by his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh for "his major contribution to the development of medicine in the Congo and to medical education in Ghana".