This Expert's name is Ama Fenny
This Expert's occupation is
Health Systems Expert
This Expert's location is
Ghana
This Expert's nationality is Ghanaian
Snapshot
Experience
10+ years
Languages
English, French
Countries of Work
Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Niger, Tanzania
Professional Experience
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UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021Team Leader with the assignment to lead the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AFHEA) team of experts undertaking investment cases for Transformative Results in the Decade of Action for Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar, South Sudan and Kenya. Activities include providing a situation analysis; using specified tools to undertake costing and modelling for the investment case and assessing current and projected financial envelope and expected resource gaps to guide new investments. -
Ministry of Health, Ghana
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019The objectives of this assignment was two-fold. First, to work with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Development Partners in Ghana to conduct a retrospective analysis of the national health financing strategy to serve as baseline evidence ahead of the health financing summit. Second, based on the outcome of objective 1 above, to recommend appropriate content and format for the health financing summit; co-facilitate the summit and
prepare final summit report.
Education
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Department of Public Health, Aarhus University
Graduated 2014PhD Health Economics -
London School of Economics & Political Science
Graduated 2004MSc in Health, Population & Society -
University of Ghana
Graduated 2000BA Economics and Computer Science
Publications
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Trends and antecedents of inequalities in maternal healthcare coverage in four African countries
Published Feb 2021 View publication -
Strategies for financing social health insurance schemes for providing universal health care: a comp
Published Jan 2021 View publication
Areas of Expertise
- Social accountability and community advocacy for health
- Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
- Contracting health providers
- Direct facility financing
- Domestic resource mobilization
- Earmarked taxes
- Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
- Health coverage schemes
- Innovative financing
- Pay for performance
- Pooling of funds
- Provider payment
- Resource allocation
- Strategic health purchasing
- Change management
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Strategic planning
- Strategy development
- Policy analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Community health services
- Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
- Health management
- Licensing and accreditation
- Medical audit
- Pharmaceutical management
- PHC
- Quality and quality assurance
- Service delivery networks
- Specialty care
- Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
- Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
- Purchasing