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
Mavis is Ghanaian-born and brings a systems thinking background to global health. GHSI grew from the loss of her father to a stroke in 2019 and a commitment to building health infrastructure that tracks outcomes, not just events. She leads GHSI's strategic direction, partnership development, and program design, traveling to Greater Accra to coordinate on-site implementation across the December 2026 pilot launch and twelve-month follow-up. She is a Master of Public Administration candidate at the Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University.
Clinical Leadership & Advisory
Dr. Joana Amegah
Ekua Yeboah, MD, MPH
Dr. Maame Araba Oduro, MBChB, MPH
Operations
Leonora Ahorkonu
Prince Osei Agyemang, PharmD, MPH
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
We are recruiting two Accra-based roles for the December 2026 pilot. Both are volunteer positions with compensation as funding allows, and we welcome candidates at every career stage, entry-level and seasoned alike.
Co-Medical Director
Accra-basedWorks alongside the Medical Director on clinical oversight for the pilot: protocol sign-off, review of emergencies and adverse events, and supervision of the physician referral network, serving as a second clinical authority as screening and follow-up scale.
Open to licensed physicians in Ghana.
Project Coordinator
Accra-basedThe on-the-ground lead who makes each screening day happen across the Greater Accra sites: logistics, event setup and management, venue and supply coordination, scheduling, and keeping operations running from the December 2026 launch through follow-up.
Accra-based, organized, and strong on logistics and event management. No clinical license required.
Interested candidates may write to 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.
Akoma+ Foundation
Akoma+ Foundation delivers community-based blood pressure screening for the December 2026 Greater Accra pilot. Akoma+'s clinicians and trained volunteers conduct screening events, while GHSI provides the standard operating protocol, twelve-month follow-up infrastructure, data platform, and overall coordination.
PHAIG (Public Health Alliance International Ghana)
PHAIG leads community engagement, mobilization, and volunteer coordination for the December 2026 Greater Accra pilot, building the relationships with community leaders and local stakeholders that anchor each screening event.
Archdiocese of Accra
Through the Archdiocese of Accra's Directorate of Health, GHSI accesses a network of four Catholic health facilities and 62 parishes across Greater Accra. The church partnership anchors GHSI's community education and screening model through trusted faith-based institutions with deep community roots.
MedExplain Health / Weill Cornell Medicine
MedExplain Health, led by Dr. Monika Safford at Weill Cornell Medicine, provides the PALS (Patient Activated Learning System) 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.
The Communities Our Pilot Is Built To Serve
The pilot is being designed in conversation with the institutions and communities that hold trust in Greater Accra: traditional authorities, religious leaders, transport unions, market associations, and the Muslim community. Partnership conversations are ongoing. We will name specific institutional partners on this page as relationships are formalized.
This is not a finished list. It is a public commitment to building one with care.