Partner Focus Area: Non-Communicable Diseases

Grace Peters

Provides technical direction and management/ administrative leadership for the Glorious Family Helps Evangelical International Min. Inc. (GFHEIM) a.k.a. Glorious Family Health Link organization. Development and design of broad-based strategies and implementation for interventions of the improvement of nutrition, quality family life/reproductive health, Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) & HIV/AIDs prevention programs within the community and organizations. Provide strategic program support in the areas of advocacy, behavior change communication, curriculum development, supportive supervision, needs assessment, Baseline, Midterm and End line assessment, situation analysis, strategic communications, research, training, workshop facilitation and writing.

Ghanshyam Kandel

public health expertise in program planning, implementing and evaluating. special interest in health communication and evidence based policy.

Gertrude Laryea

I am a 53 year old pharmacist working as the Deputy Director for Pharmaceutical Services at the Accra Metro Health Directorate. Accra Metropolitan area has a population of close to 2,000,000 people. My passion is to work to promote rational use of medicines, particularly antibiotics, in the metropolis. I also want to work to increase spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (pharmacovigilance) among health workers and residents alike in this catchment area. I am of the strongest conviction that through social and behaviour change communication I can achieve my goal.

Prior to working in the Metro Health Directorate I worked as a pharmacy manager in one of the hospitals in the metropolis- Maamobi General Hospital. Here, among other activities, l offerred adherence counselling and drug information services to clients in the anti-retroviral therapy, diabetic and hypertensive clinics, thereby optimising pharmacotherapy and improving health outcomes.

Educational background
BPharm (Hons) – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), 1988
MSc Clinical Pharmacy – KNUST, 2015
MA Communication Studies – University of Ghana, 2016
I took a semester’s elective course in Health Communication.

Key Interest
To develop a career in health communication.