Professor Evelyn Korkor Ansah is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Centre for Malaria Research, Institute of Health Research (IHR), University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. She is a Public Health Physician, an Epidemiologist, a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow.
Professor Ansah has served and continues to serve at global and national levels. She is currently a member of the Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) of the World Health Organization (WHO), providing independent, strategic advice to WHO on all technical areas relating to malaria control and elimination and the Independent Evaluation Panel (IEP) of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Professor Ansah was Vice Chair of the Global Fund’s Technical Review Panel (TRP) to combat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria from 2014-2018. She was also a member of the Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC) of the WHO, the Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria and the Bellagio Academic Selection Panel of the Rockefeller Foundation. She recently co-chaired the workstream on Service Delivery for Malaria as part of a year-long global consultation on “Rethinking Malaria in the Context of Covid 19” – a collaborative effort between Harvard University and WHO.
Professor Ansah, who is a co-lead on the Science of Defeating Malaria Leadership Course - a collaborative academic consortium partnership effort, between Harvard University, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) recently hosted the International Course at UHAS with 62 participants from 36 countries around the world. She was a faculty member on the decade long precursor of the course Malaria Science of Eradication: a Leadership Course.
She has additionally served and continues to serve on various global technical committees including as Scientific Co-chair of the 2024 Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan African Conference 2024, Co-chair of Technical Consultation on Urban Malaria, Member of a Technical Committee to advise the WHO Director-General on Malaria Vaccine Supply, Expert Review Group on Guidelines for Malaria Elimination, Technical Consultation on Preferred Product Characteristics of Medicines for Malaria Chemoprevention among others. Prior to this, she was a member of the Steering Committee of the ACT Consortium (involving over 15 institutions in several countries) and the Malaria Capacity Development Consortium.
On the National front, she has contributed to several malaria control and surveillance guidelines as well as policy documents of the Ghana Health Service in a variety of roles, her most recent being Chair of the National Technical Working Group on Malaria Case Management during which she chaired the National Review of Malaria Case Management Guidelines. Professor Ansah has worked at all levels of Ghana’s health system in both clinical and public health roles for over 25 years. Prior to joining academia, Professor Ansah was Deputy Director responsible for Research at the Research & Development Division of the Ghana Health Service.
Professor Ansah contributes to capacity building of the next generation of Public Health Professionals as an adjunct lecturer at the Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons, the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA) and the School of Public Health (University of Ghana). She has over the course of her career supervised several PhD and master's students both locally and internationally.
Evelyn’s key research interests are Malaria Case Management, Diagnostics, other Infectious Diseases, Health Systems, Reproductive and Child Health, Implementation Research and Capacity Building for Health Research. To this end, she has conducted a number of multi-country and local studies including clinical trials and health systems research. She is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed Journals and the Global Health Systems Conference and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals to her credit.