Emmanuel Komba Finoh is a public health scientist and laboratory professional from Sierra Leone. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences and a Master of Public Health in Health Informatics, both from Njala University. He is Chief Technician of the Physiology Laboratory at Njala University’s College of Medical Sciences, and a Research and Teaching Assistant in the School of Public Health, where he teaches epidemiology and biostatistics and mentors student researchers.His career spans laboratory science and population health. He worked in the laboratory response to COVID-19 at Mercy Hospital Research Laboratory, contributed to the Healthy Sierra Leone mortality surveillance project, and served as Technical Officer on the West African One Health Actions project. On that project he helped develop survey tools and trained data collection teams in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. He has also worked with district health information systems (DHIS2) and electronic data collection platforms (CommCare). He has published in One Health, maternal health and health-seeking behavior, and uses R, Python and SPSS in his analysis. His interests are infectious disease, host–pathogen interactions, laboratory systems and outbreak response in low-resource settings.