Partner Focus Area: Private Sector Partnerships

Hussam Rajab

Health communication and Training consultant
Marketing and Social Marketing consultant

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.