Professor Evelyn Korkor Ansah

Professor Evelyn Korkor Ansah is the Director of the Centre for Malaria Research, University of Health and Allied Science in Ghana. She is a Public Health Physician, an Epidemiologist, fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. She holds a degree in Medicine and a Masters of Public Health from Ghana and a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Professor Ansah has served and continues to provide service at global, international and national levels. She was the Vice Chair of the Technical Review Panel (TRP) of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She currently serves on the World Health Organization’s Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) and Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC). She also serves on the Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria.

Professor Ansah previously served as a member of the Bellagio Academic Selection Panel of the Rockefeller Foundation, 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. She contributes to building capacity among the next generation of public health professionals and has supervised several PhD and Masters students both locally and internationally. 

Her basic training was in medicine at the School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. She later pursued a Master of Public Health at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana and subsequently a PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

Professor Ansah has worked at all levels of Ghana’s health system in both clinical and public health roles for over 25 years. In her clinical roles she worked at the Ridge Regional Hospital and the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital, Ghana’s Premier Teaching Hospital. Her Public Health role covered a period of 15 years during which she progressed from a District Medical Officer to District Director of Health Services, winning several awards with her team as a District Health Leader. As the Deputy Director responsible for research at the National Level she led the development of Ghana Health Service Research Agenda for the period 2015-2019. She also initiated Research Capacity Building for health professionals through a Continuous Professional Development Programme. 

Her research interests lie in malaria case management, diagnostics, health systems, maternal health and capacity building for health research. She has conducted a number of multi-country and other studies including clinical trials and health systems research.  She serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and the Global Health Systems Conference and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals to her credit.