Director Health System, PharmAccess

Dr. Kwasi Boahene is Director of Health Systems at PharmAccess (www.pharmaccess.org). He is a champion of sustainable financing and innovations of African health and development systems for the past 3 decades. Dr. Boahene believes that with good governance, sustainable investments and innovations, everybody in Africa, irrespective of their wealth, can have access to better care. The work of PharmAccess has received many international recognitions, including G20 SME Finance Challenge Award 2010 (received from President Obama), Saving Lives at Birth Award (2014) – a global call for groundbreaking solutions to infant and maternal mortality, Financial Times/IFC Transformational Business Award in Health (2016, 2017) and Commonwealth Digital Health Awards for Maternal Health (2020). Dr Boahene studied in Ghana, Oxford and Utrecht (The Netherlands).