Deputy Board Chair
Professor of Pathology, University of Ghana Medical School, and Executive Director of Healthy Ghana, Prof. Akosa is the immediate past Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, a public service body established to provide and prudently manage comprehensive and accessible health service in accordance wit ...Read More

Board Member
Professor Ekpo is currently the Director General and Chief Executive of the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), owned by Anglophone speaking Central Banks of West Africa as well as the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea. Professor Ekpo obtained a B.A (Cum Laude; Hons) in Econ ...Read More

Executive Director
Alex joined APHRC in 1998 (then a program of the Population Council in Nairobi) as a Senior Research Fellow. In 2000, he was appointed APHRC’s Interim Director and charged with the responsibility of leading its transition into an autonomous institution. Having successfully led this transition, h ...Read More

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Amina is Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on post-2015 Development Planning and ex-officio member of the Panel of Eminent Persons on the UN post-2015 development agenda. From 2005-2011, Amina served 3 Presidents as Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals, coordinat ...Read More

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Dr.Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké is an Independent Consultant and former Chairman of the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED). He previously worked for the Rockefeller Foundation for fourteen years occupying successively the positions of Program Officer for Population Sciences (1992-1999), re ...Read More

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Francis is a Professor of Sociology and Demography at The Pennsylvania State University and Professor Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana. His intellectual interests focus on sub-Saharan Africa, where his research engagements lie specifically in gendered power in sexual and reproduc ...Read More

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Göran has been Professor of Cardiovascular Research at the University of Gothenburg since 1989 and is Emeritus Professor at the university since 2011. He was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the university between 1993 and 2001 and founding president of Sahlgrenska Academy (joint organization for the Medical Fa ...Read More

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Dr. Jennifer Riria is the Group CEO of Kenya Women Finance Trust and also the current Chair of Microfinance Institutions in Kenya, which has 44 microfinance institutions as its members. She is a distinguished Microfinance Banker and Practitioner, Researcher and Gender Specialist. ...Read More

Board Chair
Marian is former Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, she is a pediatric specialist at Groote Schuur Hospital. Throughout her career, in the fields of research, teaching and practice, Marian has maintained a strong focus on the health care of children, primarily those ...Read More

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Patricia is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Population Council (the "Council"), which conducts public health, social science, and biomedical research worldwide. She is responsible for the management of the Council’s legal and regulatory affairs and participates in the management of the Counci ...Read More

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Tade is currently the Program Director, Higher Education and Libraries in Africa for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and has served as a Consultant for many agencies including UNDP, UNICEF, UN-HABITAT, United Nations University and the World Bank on a wide range of development issues such as urban poverty, hi ...Read More

Board Member
Tamara is the Director Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation at The Helmsley Charitable Trust. Previously, she was the Senior Director for Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the ELMA Philanthropies Services in New York, which focuses on improving education and health outcomes for children and youth i ...Read More

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Prior to assuming leadership of the International Development Assistance Services (IDAS) practice in 2008, Tim has been the Partner in Charge of the Global Grants Practice since 2002; previously he was the Director of the West Region Exempt Organizations (EXOTAX) practice, over-seeing the delivery of services to a ...Read More

Board Member Prof. Trudy is Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, UK and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. After gaining a first class degree in Geography and a PhD in Urban Geography/Environmental Psychology, Professor Harpham moved into public health to develop her specia ...Read More