Mary Ashinyo

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. She has extensive experience working in Government and currently serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital-Ministry of Health Ghana. Mary has held many leadership and managerial roles at all levels of Ghana’s Health system, designing and implementing several public health flagship programs including patient safety and quality of care programs, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), national anti-microbial resistance(AMR)  programs, infectious diseases , non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health programs.

Dr. Ashinyo holds an MBChB from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology School of Medical Sciences and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana, 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, the youngest Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the 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. 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, London.

Mary has joined several global health forums 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 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 President Obama and the U.S. Department of State 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.