Prof. Evelyn K. Ansah

You are a Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. As a Public Health Physician, Clinical Epidemiologist, and Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, you bring deep expertise to global and national health efforts. You are also a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow.

You currently serve on the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group and the Independent Evaluation Panel of the Global Fund, offering strategic guidance on malaria control and elimination. Previously, you were Vice Chair of the Global Fund’s Technical Review Panel and contributed to several WHO and Global Fund committees, including the Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee and the Technical Evaluation Reference Group.

You co-chaired the Service Delivery workstream for the “Rethinking Malaria in the Context of COVID-19” initiative, led by Harvard University and WHO, and co-lead the Science of Defeating Malaria Leadership Course in partnership with Harvard, UCAD, and UHAS. Your global contributions include roles as Scientific Co-chair of the 2024 MIM Pan African Conference, Co-chair of the Technical Consultation on Urban Malaria, and advisor to the WHO Director-General on malaria vaccine supply.

With over 25 years of experience across Ghana’s health system, you previously served as Deputy Director for Research at the Ghana Health Service. Nationally, you have contributed to shaping malaria control policies including chairing the National Technical Working Group on Malaria Case Management and the most recent National Review of Guidelines for Malaria Case Management.

You continue to build capacity as an adjunct lecturer at the Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons and across three schools at UHAS having previously served as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Public Health and the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA). You have supervised numerous PhD and Master’s students locally and internationally. Your research spans malaria case management, diagnostics, private sector, infectious diseases, reproductive and child health, health systems, healthcare financing and implementation science. You have led multi-country studies, clinical trials, and health systems research, and you review for several peer-reviewed journals and conferences, with many publications to your name.