Profiles:

DR. ANTHONY NSIAH-ASARE

PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON HEALTH - GHANA

MB, ChB, FAChirg, FGCS, FWACS, FICS, FGMA

Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare is presently the Presidential Advisor on Health, at the Office of the President of Ghana. He is a Ghanaian medical officer, academic and health management expert. He has worked in the Ghanaian health sector for over forty years serving at various management levels. Having worked in leadership roles as Medical Superintendent at a District hospital, Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), and Director General of Ghana Health Service, Dr. Nsiah-Asare has created a balance of strategic, operational, business, clinical and health system reform expertise. He has also worked as a Surgical Specialist at the St Patrick Hospital in Offinso-Ashanti and Tamale Teaching Hospital. Between 1997 and 2001, Dr Nsiah-Asare served as a part-time lecturer in Clinical Anatomy at the University of Development Studies (UDS), School of Medical Sciences, Tamale.

Dr. Nsiah-Asare is a Consultant General Surgeon. He is an alumni of the Boston University, School of Public Health in USA where he obtained his Certificate in Management Methods in International Health. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS), a Fellow of Ghana College of Surgeons (FGCS), a Fellow of International College of Surgeons (FICS) and a Fellow of Ghana Medical Association (GMA).

He serves as a Member of the Ghana COVID-19 Taskforce, Presidential Vaccine Production Committee, Garden City University College Council, Kumasi, Chairman of the Cosmopolitan Health Insurance Board and Chairman of Health-GIIF Board for the implementation of Agenda 111. He served on the Ghana Health Service Council, the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons Council, National Health Insurance Board and Ghana AIDS Commission. Dr. Nsiah-Asare was honored as one of the distinguished health professionals in the country with Presidential Awards as a Member – Order of the Volta in August 2008 and Companion- Order of the Volta in March 2023. Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare is happily married with four children.