Aku Kwamie – The Conversation

A nurse weighs a baby at a clinic in Accra, Ghana. Kate Holt/MCSP

December 11, 2017

There’s more to evidence‑based policies than data: why it matters for healthcare

Aku Kwamie, University of Ghana

For healthcare to be accessible, affordable and equal, policies and programmes that promote universal health coverage need to be based on evidence.

Frontline workers need to be engaged in the process of building responsive, interconnected health systems. Reuters

October 19, 2016

Only a bottom‑up approach will deliver global health development targets

Karen Daniels, South African Medical Research Council; Aku Kwamie, University of Ghana, and Fadi El-Jardali, American University of Beirut

The millennium development goals were laudable but the approach to achieving them was flawed. An integrated, bottom-up approach is needed if the sustainable development goals are to be met by 2030.

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