Dr. Mary Eyram Ashinyo is a Physician Specialist in Public Health and Global Health Expert with emphasis on epidemiology, health policy, systems management and leadership. Currently a member of the Governing Board of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Mary has held many leadership and managerial roles at all levels of Ghana’s Health System from community level to national level, including serving as former Head of Quality Assurance for the Ghana Health Service and a Medical Director of a district-type hospital. In these roles she led the design and implementation of several flagship programs for healthcare quality in healthcare facilities across all 16 regions of Ghana, operationalizing Ghana’s first National Healthcare Quality Strategy within the Ghana Health Service coordinating over thirty development development partners.
Mary holds an MBChB from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology School of Medical Sciences and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, a Master of Public Health from the University of Ghana School of Public Health, a diploma of advanced studies in health management from the University of Basel, Swiss Tropical Institute of Public Health, Switzerland, and several management certificates from the Howard University Washington D.C., U.S.A., the European School of Management and Technology E.S.M.T. Berlin Germany and the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration GIMPA Ghana.
She is a Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
Mary does not only have an extensive experience working in the Government space, but also in non-profit and non-government organizations and professional associations including serving as former General Secretary of the Ghana Public Health Association and Founding West Africa Regional Representative of the John Hopkin’s Planetary Health Alliance focusing on climate, air pollution and biodiversity. She also served as a consultant to support the development of the World Health Organization’s first regional patient safety strategy for the Africa region at the WHO regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, and worked as Global Lead Policy Analyst for Health at WaterAid UK where she led policy and advocacy work around Water Sanitation and Hygiene in relation to women’s health, cholera and antimicrobial resistance, working with several Global organizations, bilateral and multilaterals including the World Health Organization, World Bank, Africa CDC.
Mary has served on several global task force on global health and joined several global health forum to contribute to shaping global health policies including the watershed 2024 World Health Assembly, WHO Executive Board meetings and the United Nations General Assembly Special Session, World Health Summit, among others.
Mary received several servitude and leadership awards and recognition including the 2015 Mandela Washinton Fellow award for grassroot servitude and public leadership from the U.S. Department of State, 2016 Inter-Academy Partnership Young Physician Leaders [IAP-YPL] Fellow and the 2022 Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellow award from the African Union and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention African CDC.
