Kwame Adogboba - Health systems
Overview
Dr Kwame Adogboba is the Managing Director of Health Partners Ghana (HPG) and a director of Health Partners International. He is a senior public health practitioner with more than 20 years experience in the planning, organisation and management of district, regional and national health services in Ghana.
His key specialist technical areas include:
- health systems review, evaluation and reform
- management of health services and hospitals
- health care quality assurance
- participatory peer appraisal systems
- primary health care
- development of district health systems.
Background and relevant experience
Kwame was previously Deputy Director for Institutional Services of the Ghana Ministry of Health and played a key role in the reform of the country’s public health sector and the design of its new national health service. He has been an active member of the health policy and planning teams in Ghana since 1991 and has managed health sector reforms at regional and national level. He has also led the development of quality assurance initiatives in the Ministry of Health and initiatives for the reform of district and regional hospital management.
Kwame has consultancy experience gained in a number of African countries. Since 2000, he has been working closely with the Nigerian health system, first with the Benue Health Fund project in which he helped to establish a process of Peer and Participatory Rapid Hospital Appraisal for Action (PPRHAA) in the state, and facilitated an analysis of primary and secondary health care services of Nigerian church facilities. He has since been involved in the appraisal of more than 50 health facilities in Nigeria for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Partnership for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS) programme.
Since 2006, Kwame has been instrumental in establishing an integrated health system in Jigawa state, Nigeria, under the PATHS Programme. Gundumas (health district sub-structures) have been set up through the geographical regrouping of the 27 Local Government Authority health departments into nine health sub-structures (districts). These reforms to integrate and decentralise Jigawa’s primary and secondary services have not only had profound implications on the state’s health system, but have also provided useful models and lessons for developing health services elsewhere in Nigeria.
In 2003, Kwame led a Health Partners International team of public health and social development consultants in designing and undertaking a PPHRAA process at three referral hospitals in Tanzania (Mbeya, Bugando and Mwanza), as part of wider hospital reform efforts. The team presented findings in each of the three regions, as well as nationally. They also prepared a Facilitator’s Guide to be used in similar exercises in the future by the Tanzanian authorities.
Kwame has also been involved in programme design and review in Mozambique and Ethiopia, the development of a five-year strategic plan for the Christian Health Association of Ghana, institutional analysis of the health sector in Jigawa State, Nigeria, and as lead adviser for appraising 15 tertiary hospitals of the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria.