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Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the Deputy Director-General, World Health Organisation

Dr Asamoah-Baah delivers lecture at Legon today

The University of Ghana Alumni Association and the University of Ghana are organising the Alumni Lecture 2015 at the Great Hall of the university at 5 p.m. today.

It is being sponsored by Ecobank and media partners, including the Daily Graphic.

 

 The topic is: “Vaccines and public anxiety”.

It will be delivered by Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the Deputy Director–General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and chaired by Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, the Vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana.

Dr Asamoa-Baah attended Prempeh College in Kumasi and the University of Ghana Medical School. 

After working at the St Patrick Hospital, Offinso, and the Diocesan Health Secretariat of the Catholic Church, he proceeded to England, Scotland and the USA, where he acquired postgraduate degrees in Public Health, Health Planning, Health Economics and Health Policy.

After a short stint as lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he returned to Ghana in 1990 to head the Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Ministry of Health.

 Director, Medical Services

In 1997, he was appointed the Director of Medical Services, Ghana, which at that time was the highest technical position in the Ministry of Health.

In 1998, Dr Asamoa-Baah left Ghana to join the WHO as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Director-General.  Since then he has held the following positions at WHO: Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Governing Bodies with responsibilities that included managing the Secretariat of the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board, strengthening donor and partner relationships, resource mobilisation and coordinating WHO's country work; Assistant Director-General for Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals, whose schedule covered WHO's work on immunisation, including polio, medicines, blood transfusion, diagnostics and laboratory technology, transplantation and essential surgical care.

As Assistant Director-General of Communicable Diseases, he was responsible for WHO’s work on disease outbreaks, the revision and subsequent adoption of International Health Regulations (2005), strengthening of epidemic alert and response and the neglected tropical infectious diseases. 

He was also the Coordinator of the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.

As the Assistant Director-General of the HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria programme, he led WHO’s work on the three pandemics and guiding partnerships on strategy formulation to achieve universal access to high quality health care and treatment.

In 2007, Dr Asamoa-Baah was appointed Deputy Director-General (second in command) of the WHO.

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