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Our Team & Partners

GHSI is powered by a dedicated team and strategic partnerships that bring together clinical expertise, community health experience, and grassroots reach.

Leadership

Mavis Amegah-Dorr

Founder & Project Lead
Ithaca, NY, USA
Mavis is Ghanaian-born and brings a systems thinking background to global health. GHSI grew from a personal loss and a commitment to building health infrastructure that tracks outcomes, not just events. She leads GHSI's strategic direction, partnership development, and program design.

Dr. Joana Amegah

Medical Director
Accra, Ghana
Dr. Amegah serves as GHSI's lead clinician, providing clinical oversight for screening protocols, referral pathways, and training standards. She brings direct access to Ghana's medical network and ensures that GHSI's approach meets appropriate clinical standards for the Ghanaian context.

Leonora Ahorkonu / Edem

Community Engagement & Intake Lead
Accra, Ghana
Leonora holds a certificate in Community Health Nursing and is a Registered Preventive Nurse currently advancing her studies. She brings direct community health experience to GHSI's screening model, leading intake coordination and serving as a vital link between screening events and the communities GHSI serves. She also contributes Ewe language capacity to the team.

Prince Osei Agyemang, PharmD, MPH

Data & Follow-Up Coordinator
Accra, Ghana
Prince manages GHSI's patient data systems and coordinates the 12-month follow-up cycle through the Simple app platform. With training in pharmacy and population health analytics, he ensures that every person screened is tracked, contacted, and connected to care at Days 14, 30, 90, 180, and 365.

Ekua Yeboah, MD, MPH

Clinical Advisor
Baltimore, USA
Dr. Yeboah is a Johns Hopkins-trained physician and public health specialist serving as GHSI's second clinical lens. She reviews screening protocols, BP classification thresholds, and referral pathways to ensure clinical accuracy and alignment with international standards.

Dr. Maame Araba Oduro, MBChB, MPH

Clinical Lead, Maternal Health & Hypertension in Pregnancy
Ghana
Dr. Oduro guides GHSI's pregnancy exclusion pathway within the screening protocol. Her expertise in maternal health ensures that women of childbearing age who present with elevated blood pressure receive appropriate clinical direction, communication, and referral.

Growing Team

GHSI is actively onboarding additional team members and advisors as the initiative approaches pilot launch, including specialists in data and follow-up coordination, clinical advisory, and health financing. Updated team profiles will be added as onboarding is completed.

Open Positions

GHSI is currently recruiting for the following roles to support our upcoming pilot.

Co-Medical Director Ghana-based
Project Coordinator Ghana-based

Interested candidates may contact us at info@ghanabloodpressure.org

Strategic Partnerships

GHSI leverages partnerships to prevent duplication and build capacity within existing programs. Our partners bring deep community roots and specialized expertise.

SASNET-Ghana

Education & Training Partner

SASNET-Ghana leads community health educator training through the Training of Trainers model, equipping local volunteers with the knowledge and skills to deliver culturally grounded hypertension education across Greater Accra. SASNET-Ghana brings deep experience in community-based health education and grassroots mobilization in Ghanaian communities.

care.sasnetghana.org →

Akoma+ Foundation

Community Engagement Partner

Akoma+ Foundation supports community mobilization and volunteer coordination, connecting GHSI's screening events to the neighborhoods and market communities where they take place. Akoma+ brings established relationships with community leaders and experience in health-focused outreach programming.

akomaplushealth.com →

PHAIG (Public Health Alliance International Ghana)

Pilot Implementation Partner

PHAIG supports GHSI's pilot implementation in the Greater Accra Region, providing on-the-ground operational capacity, regulatory navigation, and community health infrastructure. Led by Dr. Prince Samuel Nuamah, PHAIG brings established relationships with Ghana's health institutions including the National Health Insurance Authority.

phaig.org →

Archdiocese of Accra

Church Partnership

Through the Archdiocese of Accra's Directorate of Health, led by Fr. Peter Rocky Hesse, GHSI accesses a network of four Catholic health facilities and 62 parishes across Greater Accra. The church partnership anchors GHSI's community education model through trusted faith-based institutions with deep community roots.

accracatholic.org →

MedExplain Health / Weill Cornell Medicine

Education Technology Partner

MedExplain Health, led by Dr. Monika Safford at Weill Cornell Medicine, provides the PALS (Peer and Lay health worker Support) curriculum methodology that forms the foundation of GHSI's training materials. Their evidence-based approach to community health education has been adapted for the Ghanaian context in collaboration with SASNET-Ghana.

medexplain.org →