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This Expert's name is Michael Kusi Appiah

This Expert's occupation is Chief Analyst
This Expert's location is Ghana
This Expert's nationality is Ghanaian

Snapshot

Experience

5+ years

Languages

English, French

Countries of Work

China, People's Republic of, Germany, Ghana, Mali

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Coaching
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Health coverage schemes
  • Resource allocation
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Health-related surveys
  • Preparedness for public health emergencies
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Knowledge management software
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Malaria
  • Nutrition
  • Costing
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Supply chain and commodity costing
  • Supply chain in humanitarian response
  • Supply chain organizational capacity and workforce

Professional Experience

  • National Development Planning Commission

    Jun 2019 - Present
    Chief Analyst / Deputy Director:
    Advisor for national policy development - applied microeconomics policy, trade finance, medium-term and long-term development planning, emergency planning, and review of national policy development plans.
  • International Rescue Committee (IRC), Germany

    Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
    Economist Health Analyst - Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
    Department at IRC Berlin (report to Headquarters in the USA)
    • Responsible for the economic evaluation of malnutrition program in Mali
    • Capacity building of Best of Resource Use team on economic evaluation
    • Lead researcher - economic evaluation of the implementation of the
    Moderate and acute malnutrition treatment in Mali
    • Research health programs in South Sudan
  • Chemonics, Ghana

    Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
    Conducted supply chain cost evaluation of Ghana Health Logistics Information Systems (GHiLMIS).

Education

  • Zeppelin University

    Graduated 2018
    Doctorate in Economics
  • Universität Hohenheim

    Graduated 2012
    Master of Science in Agricultural Economics
  • University of Ghana

    Graduated 2008
    Bacherlor of Arts in Economics

Affiliations

American Economic Associaition
University of Ghana Economics Students Association.
Ghana Association of Over the Counter Drugs Practitioner.

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Coaching
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Health coverage schemes
  • Resource allocation
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Health-related surveys
  • Preparedness for public health emergencies
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Knowledge management software
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Malaria
  • Nutrition
  • Costing
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Supply chain and commodity costing
  • Supply chain in humanitarian response
  • Supply chain organizational capacity and workforce

Affiliations

American Economic Associaition
University of Ghana Economics Students Association.
Ghana Association of Over the Counter Drugs Practitioner.