03 / Experience

Career and education

A career built across analysis, systems and service.

From hospital biostatistics to national HIV strategic information, my work has stayed close to the people and systems responsible for turning data into care.

Experience across Ghana and Sierra Leone.

2017 — Present

Strategic Information Focal Person / Laboratory Information Systems Specialist

Ghana Health Service · CDC Cooperative Agreement

National HIV strategic-information, diagnostic-network and health-information-system leadership.

  • Led Diagnostic Network Continuous Quality Improvement across PEPFAR-supported regions for viral load, early infant diagnosis and TB testing.
  • Scaled the individual-level tracking function of DHIS2 across more than 700 ART sites, within the same platform used for aggregate reporting.
  • Implemented a viral-load data-management system integrating laboratory analysers with DHIS2.
  • Named member of Ghana’s National Estimates Team for the 2024 and 2025 national and sub-national HIV estimates; acknowledged in both reports for contributing to generating the estimates and developing the reports.

2019 — 2021

Laboratory Management Information System Consultant

King’s College London / King’s Sierra Leone Partnership · Ministry of Health and Sanitation

LIMS assessment, configuration and workforce preparation for public hospital laboratories in Sierra Leone.

  • Conducted needs assessments and configured LIMS for teaching hospitals and seven additional public hospital laboratories.
  • Delivered training and sensitisation for laboratory and information-technology staff.

2016 — 2017

Independent Consultant

Health facilities and public hospital laboratories · Ghana

Designed patient and laboratory data-management systems and monitored information-system implementation.

  • Designed and implemented laboratory and patient data-management systems for healthcare facilities.
  • Conducted information-system assessments and site monitoring in public hospital laboratories.

2011 — 2015

Data and Information Systems Project Manager

Global Health Systems Solutions · Ghana

Led laboratory information-system delivery, quality data systems and monitoring tools.

  • Led Basic Laboratory Information System implementation in more than 25 hospitals.
  • Implemented data systems for Dried Tube Specimen proficiency testing.
  • Developed monitoring and evaluation tools to improve programme management.

2010 — 2011

Biostatistics Officer

Asante Bekwai Municipal Hospital

Improved patient-record workflows, morbidity reporting and health-facility performance reporting.

  • Reduced misfiling and duplication by improving medical-records processes.
  • Developed a morbidity data-collection tool and supervised medical-records staff.

Education

Four disciplines. One integrated practice.

2022

MPhil, Field Epidemiology and Applied Biostatistics

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

2015

MSc, Health Informatics

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

2012

Postgraduate Diploma, Information Technology

Sikkim Manipal University

2009

BA, Geography and Rural Development

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyConcentration: Medical Geography

Recognition

Awards

  • 2018 Travel Grant, American Society for Clinical Pathology
  • 2015 Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Global Health Systems Solutions

Teaching and service

Knowledge shared

  • 2017 — Present Trainer and facilitator, HIV/AIDS Strategic Information
  • Peer review Reviewer contributions to Heliyon and JMIR
  • Languages English and Akan

Professional community

Memberships that connect practice to a wider scientific community.

These affiliations strengthen professional exchange across tropical medicine, African laboratory systems and clinical pathology.

ASTMH

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

ASLM

African Society of Laboratory Medicine

ASCP

American Society for Clinical Pathology

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I welcome conversations with prospective PhD supervisors, research teams, public-health institutions and development partners.

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