The People Behind GHSI

Our Team & Partners

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

Our Team

Leadership

Founder

Mavis Amegah-Dorr

Founder & Executive Director

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

Medical Director

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

Ekua Yeboah, MD, MPH

Clinical Advisor

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

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.

Research Leadership

Dr. Hubert Amu

Anchor Principal Investigator

Dr. Amu is a Ghanaian population health researcher and Senior Lecturer at the University of Health and Allied Sciences. As Anchor Principal Investigator, he leads GHSI's research program: the evaluation design for the December 2026 pilot, the primary outcomes research on the twelve-month follow-up loop, and the publication agenda that turns GHSI's data into evidence for policy.

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Cynthia Lamisi Anaba

Co-Principal Investigator

Ms. Anaba is a public health researcher at the University for Development Studies, Tamale, and a Quality Improvement Advisor with the Christian Health Association of Ghana. As Co-Principal Investigator, she co-leads GHSI's research program, anchoring the northern research perspective and the pathways that link community screening to Ghana's wider health system.

Operations

Leonora Ahorkonu

Community Engagement & Intake Lead

Leonora leads community engagement and intake coordination for GHSI's screening model, serving as a vital link between screening events and the communities GHSI serves. She brings hands-on community experience and contributes Ewe language capacity to the team.

Prince Osei Agyemang, PharmD, MPH

Data & Follow-Up Coordinator

Prince manages GHSI's patient data systems and coordinates the 12-month follow-up cycle, including pharmacy referral pathway development. 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.

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.

Join Our Team

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-based

Works 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-based

The 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.

Our Partners

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

Screening Delivery Partner

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.

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PHAIG (Public Health Alliance International Ghana)

Community Engagement Partner

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.

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Community Trust

Built On Many Anchors Of Trust

In Greater Accra, no single institution holds the community's trust. It is carried by faith communities, both Christian and Muslim, by traditional authorities, and by the leaders of the working communities GHSI serves. GHSI's model rests on all of them, so that every worker we reach is reached through people they already trust, and so that no one community stands in for the whole.

GHSI's relationship with the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra and its parish network is the one furthest along. Alongside it, GHSI is working to build trust with the Office of the National Chief Imam and the Muslim community, with traditional authorities, and with the transport unions and market women's leadership who anchor the lorry stations and markets where screening will take place.

This is not a finished list. It is a public commitment to building one with care, and to naming each partner here only once the relationship is real.