Hannah Brown Amoakoah

Hannah Brown Amoakoh is a medical doctor by training, earned her degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, and holds a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Ghana. Hannah has worked as a general physician for several years in Ghana’s public healthcare system. Her research interest lies in reproductive health and health systems research. This interest culminated in her obtaining a PhD in clinical epidemiology at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands in July 2019. Hannah’s doctoral work focused on evaluating the impact of a clinical decision-making system (an mHealth app) on maternal and neonatal health in Ghana.

Hannah is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana and an assistant professor with the Department of Global Health at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University. She is also working on the Severe Pre-eclampsia adverse Outcome Triage (SPOT)-impact study in Ghana whose focus is to develop, implement and evaluate a risk-based decision-making tool for women in Ghana suffering from hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP). Hannah is also a member of the core group for the Lancet Commission on Synergies between universal health coverage, health security and health promotion.