Agyeman Badu Akosa, M.D.

Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, M.D., is the executive director of Healthy Ghana, chairman of the Executive Board of the African Population Health Research Centre, and a member of the Board of Governors for the ENSIGN – College of Public Health. He previously served as President of the Ghana Medical Association, President of the Commonwealth Medical Association, and Director General of the Ghana Health Service.

Prof. Akosa is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ghana Medical Association, Royal College of Pathologists, West African College of Physicians and the Ghana College of Physicians. He has received Ghana’s second highest award, Companion of the Order of the Volta (CV), for public and medical services.

Prof. Akosa was previously a consultant histopathologist and clinical director of pathology in the UK and professor and head of the Department of Pathology in the University of Ghana Medical School.