BRCCH | Lessons from Malaria Vaccine Implementation in Ghana

Speaker: Prof Evelyn Korkor Ansah (University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana)
Evelyn Korkor Ansah is the Director of the Centre for Malaria Research. She is a Public Health Physician, an Epidemiologist, a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. Prof Ansah was the Vice Chair of the Global Fund’s Technical Review Panel (TRP) to combat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria until 2019. She currently serves on the WHO’s Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) and Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC). In addition to this, she serves on the Independent Evaluation Panel (IEP) of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria. Prior to this, she served on the Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) of the Global Fund, the Bellagio Academic Selection Panel of the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Steering Committee of the ACT Consortium (involving over 15 institutions in several countries).
Her key research interests are malaria case management, diagnostics, health systems, maternal health and capacity building for health research. To this end, she has conducted a number of multi-country and local studies including clinical trials and health systems research.
This seminar is within the theme "Malaria Prevention: Progress and Prospects", as part of the BRCCH 2022 Seminar Series.

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