Irene Akua Agyepong is a Foundation fellow and Chairperson of the Public Health Faculty of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was Ghana Health Service Regional Director for the Greater Accra region of Ghana (2004 to 2012), first chair of the Board of Health Systems Global (2012 – 2014) and Professor Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity, University Medical Centre, Utrecht in the Netherlands (2008 – 2010). She has been member and then Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (2008 – 2013). She was awarded the Arnold Kaluzny distinguished alumni award of the Public Health Leadership program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. She is a member of the independent advisory board for the global burden of disease studies. She supervised students and taught part time in the University of Ghana School of Public health from its inception in 2004 through to full time secondment by the Ghana Health Service between 2012 and 2016. She has an MBChB (1986) from the University of Ghana Medical School; a Masters in Community Health (1991) from the University of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; and a Doctor of Public Health (2000) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has and continues to practice, advocate, research, teach and publish extensively in the field of health policy and systems.
