Dr. Eric Debrah Otchere is the Head of the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His areas of specialty and research interests include: Music, Health and Wellbeing, Music Preferences and Emotional Intelligence, Music in Education, and the functional use of music in everyday life.

Otchere's current research revolves around the power of music in the context of work; covering an ambitious range from ethnographic field research on Ghanaian indigenous fishing culture to personalized musical preferences via modern technology. Otchere is the recipient of several prestigious awards & fellowships, and is a 02020-21 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.