Professor Evelyn Korkor Ansah

Professor Evelyn Korkor Ansah is the Director of the Centre for Malaria Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. She is a Public Health Physician, an Epidemiologist, a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. Professor Ansah has served and continues serve at global and national levels.

She 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 World Health Organization’s Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) and Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC). In addition to this, she serves on the Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria and the Bellagio Academic Selection Panel of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Prior to this, she was a member of the Steering Committee of the ACT Consortium (involving over 15 institutions in several countries) and the Malaria Capacity Development Consortium. She was Deputy Director responsible for Research at the Research & Development Division of the Ghana Health Service.

Professor Ansah contributes to capacity building of the next generation of Public Health Professionals as an adjunct lecturer at the Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons, the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA) and the School of Public Health (University of Ghana). She has over the course of her career supervised several PhD and Masters students both locally and internationally.