Dr. Nana Twum-Danso is a dynamic and visionary physician leader with more than 25 years of international experience spanning consulting, entrepreneurship, operations management, service delivery, and scholarship. Her work is devoted to advancing evidence-based health policy and practice; transforming health systems; strengthening community health; preventing disease; eliminating harm; promoting healthy behaviours; and reducing inequities in health outcomes. She has demonstrated success as a founder, senior executive, team leader, and board member. Dr. Twum-Danso is a subject-matter expert in improvement science, large-scale change management, preventive medicine, public health, and strategic philanthropy. She has a proven track record of agile, responsive, and results-driven work with health systems and communities across diverse socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts worldwide.
Most recently, Dr. Twum-Danso was Founder and CEO of MAZA, a social enterprise that provided urgent health transportation for pregnant women and sick infants in remote areas of northern Ghana, in partnership with the Ghana Health Service and Ghana Ambulance Service. Previously, she designed, led, and managed large-scale quality-improvement initiatives in maternal and child health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She also led parasitic disease-control programmes at the Task Force for Global Health, in partnership with national governments and nongovernmental organizations.