Prof. Margaret Gyapong

Professor Margaret Gyapong is a medical anthropologist by training and former Director of the Institute of Health Research (IHR) and Coordinator of the Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research (CHPIR) at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ghana. Under her leadership, the centre was designated as a TDR Regional Training Centre for Implementation Research in 2018. Prior to joining the university in 2017, she spent almost 25 years as a researcher in the Ghana Health Service and was foundation Director of the Dodowa Health Research Centre from 2005 to 2016, transforming it from a small research station to an internationally acclaimed research centre. Her interests are in socio-cultural aspects of tropical diseases, implementation research, health systems and maternal and child health.