Providing Sustainable Mental and Neurological Health Care in Ghana and Kenya Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Participant Biographies
Appendix D: Participant Biographies
Pages 111-136
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He is currently working on an International Master's in Mental Health Policy and Services with the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has been actively involved in piloting the implementation of the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Program in Nigeria.
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He is also president of the Rotary Club of Greensborough and president of the Mental Health Foundation of Ghana, a charity organization based in Australia and Ghana. Emmanuel Teye Adjase, M.D., M.P.H., is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ghana Medical Association and has worked as both a doctor and a public health physician specialist.
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He and his team continue to work toward reducing the stigma of mental illness and expanding St.-Camille's mission to provide mental health and general medical community care to additional African countries. Albert Akpalu, M.D., is a senior physician specialist, head of the Neurology and Stroke Units at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, and a lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School.
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He also serves as chair of the Mental Health Board of Ghana and chair of the faculty of psychiatry with the Ghana College of Physicians. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, for which he served as vice president and guest lecturer in 1999.
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He was at one time the national coordinator of the Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Program, and is currently chair of the Navrongo Health Research Centre Institutional Ethics Review Board. He was a Co–Principal Investigator of the Mobile Technology for Community Health and Ghana Essential Health Intervention Projects, as well as a contributor to several other health projects.
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From 2001–2011, Dr. Bernstein also served as the associate dean for graduate medical education and the designated institutional official for Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education–accredited training programs at NYU.
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His work involves engaging with governments and other service providers to strengthen mental health systems, a process that is strongly linked to the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Program, of which CBM has been a key supporter since its inception. He also focuses on promoting CBM's broader priority of working for an inclusive society where service users are empowered to participate in processes of policy
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Currently he is an international and mental health advisor to Ethiopia–FMOH. He is involved in the Mental Health Gap Action Program and Program for Improving Mental Health Care projects supported by the World Health Organization and Department for International Development, respectively.
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Ms. Gyansa-Lutterodt is a Fellow of the West African College of Pharmacists and a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of Pharmacists.
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He has worked for the Kenyan government as a medical officer since 1981; a consultant psychiatrist (1987–1992) ; the deputy director of mental health (1992–1997)
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He also worked as a project officer with the Health Foundation of Ghana, where he assisted in the development of health programs in several regions throughout Ghana. He served as the member of a delegation through the Ghana Government in the Sixth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and has served as a facilitator in various capacities involving community mental health care delivery.
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Hong Ma, M.D., holds the titles of senior psychiatric doctor of Peking University Institute of Mental Health; executive director of the National Center for Mental Health, China-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and deputy director, Office of National Mental Health Programs, Ministry of Health.
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He also manages one of the first pharmacist-run Anticoagulation Clinics in sub-Saharan Africa at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret. In addition, he precepts advanced clerkship rotation students from the Purdue University College of Pharmacy, clinical pharmacy interns from the University of Nairobi, and pharmacy residents in the Global Health Pharmacy Residency Exchange Program.
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Richard Otieno Muga, M.D., is currently a full-time associate professor at the Great Lakes University of Kisumu and deputy vice chancellor. He is responsible for teaching Health Policy, District Health Systems Development, and Child Health at the Master's level to students of Community Health and Development.
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John Munyu is the chief executive officer of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority, the governmental organization in charge of promoting health care for Kenyans through the procurement and distribution of quality medical commodities. Victoria Mutiso, Ph.D., has gained extensive experience in community mental health over the past 7 years.
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His recent work includes the development of a waterless toilet system in Madagascar and a collection of innovations to help in the safe removal of landmines from land that have been devastated by war. David Ndetei, MBCh.B., D.P.M., MRC Psych., M.D., FRCPsych., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and the founding director of the Africa Mental Health Foundation, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to research for evidence-based policy and practice in mental health, and promotion of neurological health and healthy behavior.
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She is a pediatrician by training, and now serves as a public health physician currently working at the World Health Organization Country Office in Ghana. She is the disease prevention and control officer and is responsible for the oversight of programs involving noncommunicable diseases, including mental health.
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He is also the co-founder of Sangath, an Indian nongovernmental organization that has pioneered task-sharing experiments in the areas of child development, adolescent health, and mental health. In 2011, he was appointed to two Government of India health committees, the Mental Health Policy Group (which drafted India's first national mental health policy, launched in October 2014)
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In 2014 Direct Relief's work in humanitarian analytics was recognized by Fast Company, which named Direct Relief 1 of the world's 10 most innovative nonprofits. He is a member of the global advisory board for the 1 Million Community Health Workers Campaign and architect of the Cam
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is a partnership among the IHI, the United States, and the National Catholic Health Service, Ghana working in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service to accelerate the reduction of under-5 mortality in Ghana through the application of quality improvement methods. In this role, Dr.
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Her work involves planning and coordinating mental health activities within the Ghana Health Service. She is the national coordinator of the World Health Organization/Ministry of Health 4-year project, "Fight Against Epilepsy," which aims to improve access to epilepsy services in Ghana.
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, and is a member of the Health Service and Population Research Department at KCL, and the Centre for Global Mental Health, a joint center between King's Health Partners and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He also works as a consultant psychiatrist at South London & Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust in a local community mental health early intervention team in Lambeth.
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Dr. Vanotoo has occupied several positions within the Ghana Health Service, including head of the Pediatrics Department at Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi; metropolitan director of health services of the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis in Sekondi; deputy regional director in charge of public health for Western Region; and regional director of health services for Western Region.
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Benedict Weobong, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a Ghanaian public health mental health epidemiologist with a psychology background. He is currently with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Research Fellow in the Department/Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health.
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Mr. Yaro's research interests include practices of traditional healers and alternative/ informal health care services for mental disorders, self-advocacy of mental health service users, and mental health in prisons.
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