Dr Boatin holds a degree in Medicine, International Public Health and Epidemiology. He is currently an adjunct professor in Tropical Health at the Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Canada and Senior Advisor to the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center for Africa based at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra, Ghana.
Before taking on these roles he led the research in Integrated Community based Interventions and managed the research in Lymphatic Filariasis at the WHO based TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease. He was also responsible for the link between the TDR and the Neglected Tropical disease department of the WHO.
Until he took up a position at the TDR he was responsible for Aids Medicines and diagnostics service at HIV department of the WHO.
He has worked for several decades in onchocerciasis, its epidemiology and its control through chemotherapy, publishing a wide range of scientific articles in this field while working at the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP); first as its epidemiologist, then the head of Planning Evaluation and Transfer and later as the Director of the Programme till the closure of the Programme 2002. He has published many scientific articles in peer review journals and contributed several chapters in books. He recently co-edited a book on Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hobbies are lawn tennis, playing Piano/Organ music and reading.