Prof. Moses Kweku Sekyi Aikins has a PhD in Health Economics (1995) and a Diploma in Public Health and Policy (1996) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. Worked as an Assistant Economic Planning Officer, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana (1984 – 1990); Social Scientist, Gambia’s Medical Research Laboratories, The Gambia (1989 – 1995); Head, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, Ghana Population Council Secretariat, Ghana (1996 – 1997); Senior Consultant, JSA Consultants Ltd, Accra (1997 – 2000, 2002 – 2006); and Technical Officer, WHO (2000 – 2002). He joined the School of Public Health in 2007 after a year part-time teaching.

Professor Philip B Adongo is the immediate Head, Department of Social and Behavioural Science, School of Public Health – University of Ghana. He also holds an Adjunct appointment at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.  He was appointed Erasmus Mundus Scholar in International Health at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to joining the University of Ghana, School of Public Health, he worked as Principal Research Fellow at the Navrongo Health Research Centre. Professor Adongo research work spans the domains of health system research, implementation research, Communicable and non-communicable disease research, Maternal, Child and Reproductive health, Health Education and Communication, Medical Anthropology and Ethnography.

Dr. Patricia Akweongo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy Planning and Management School of Public Health-University of Ghana where she teaches a number of courses at the PhD and Masters level and does administration, supervision and research. She is currently the Head of Department for Health Policy Planning and Management.

Patricia’s research work and experience has been in the areas of health systems governance of social protection programmes,  health systems strengthening, community engagement and empowerment, economics of health care, malaria, equity and access to health care, sexual and reproductive health, health system and health policy,  Human Resource management and management strengthening, gender and cultural studies, violence, socio-economic issues on meningitis, economic evaluation, epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, etc. She has several peer review publications to her credit.

Dr. Glozah is a Health Psychologist in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health. He has several years of teaching experience in higher education and prior to joining the School of Public Health had held various academic positions including Campus Director, Head of Department and Dean of Faculty. Franklin has supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and theses and has served as an internal examiner for over 30 Master’s theses. He is an enthusiastic researcher with quality peer reviewed articles published in internationally reputable journals and serves as a reviewer for renowned journals such as the Journal of Health Psychology and the Journal of Adolescence. Franklin is an Approved Researcher under the Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK.