Dr. Kofi Akohene Mensah

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Health Policy, Management and Economics
School of Public Health
Room No: 15

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Research Areas/Interests

Health policy and systems strengthening, Health Services Leadership and Management, Human Resource Management in the Health Sector, Digital Health, Me...~more

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Grants/Funds Awarded

2021-2024 – Project Coordinator WP2 Research to Improve Resilience in Major African Cities through Universal Health Coverage (ReachUHC)” at the KNUST-School of Public Health in Ghana with funding support from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), and in collaboration with the National Health Insurance Authority in Ghana, the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) in Germany and mTOMADY of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Doctors for Madgascar and the Berlin Institute of Health in Germany, €182,300.00

2018-2022 -Project Coordinator, Appropriate Point of Care diagnostics (APOC) funding from the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the School of Public Health, KNUST, $ 200,000

2012 – Focal person for the implementation of four (4) million dollars project from the Africa Health Fund for expansion and renewal of infrastructure, acquisition of modern medical equipment and development of additional 125 beds to increase the capacity of Aniniwah Medical Centre to 200 beds

2007 – 2010 – £64, 0000.00 Principal Investigator, exploration of evaluation approaches for a community-based intervention for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana, USAIDS / OICI collaborative project in Ghana

2008 – £5,000.00 travelling award. MAC Robertson travelling scholarship offered by the University of Glasgow, UK for data collection in Ghana

2006 – 2009 – GHC 40,000.00 award from the NACP/GLOBAL Fund for implementation of treatment, care and support for PLHIV

2002 – 2008 – GHC 120,000.00 MSHAP Fund from the Ghana AIDS Commission for treatment, care and support for PLHIV

2001 – 2002 – $100,000.00 Focal person for implementation of Child Survival Programmes in UNICEF Focal communities in Savalugu- Nanton District of the Northern Region, Ghana

2024 -2025 – Training Coordinator, USAID/Quality Services for Health Activities in 3 Districts in the Western Region of Ghana, $178,920. Grant No. FY24-G002-G005, TO NO. 72064121F00001, Contract No. 7200AA18D00026

2022-2032 – Coordinator Health Employment Pillar. KNUST Mastercard Foundation Health Collaborative Program. $15, 400,000.00

2019-2023 –Health Economics Team Member for European Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnerships 2 (EDCTP2); Effect of a Novel typhoid conjugate vaccine in Africa: a multicenter study in Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo- THECA - €5,179,550.71

2020-2023- Research Team Member for German-Ghanaian Research Partner Group for eHealth: Analysing regulatory authorization, provider adoption and strategies for scale-up using the case study of a national telemedicine programme in Ghana at the KNUST-School of Public Health in Ghana with funding support from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), and in collaboration with the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) in Germany -€535,000.00


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