Raymond Kofi Owusu

Raymond Kofi Owusu is an astute and highly motivated Public Health Specialist with 20 years extensive experience. His interest is in delivering quality health care to remote communities in Ghana through a multi-sectoral approach. Thus, his strengths are most prominent in managing integrated, health, nutrition, food security, water, sanitation and hygiene(WASH) projects/programs. He has over the years collaborated with government institutions, United Nations(UN) agencies (UNICEF, WHO and UN Habitat); and academic institutions (University of Ghana and McGill University, Canada). Raymond is also skilled in resource acquisition, donor relations, research and advocacy.

He held key positions of Grants Manager, Resource Development Specialist and Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS Specialist at World Vision International (WVI) in Ghana. Raymond represented the organization and presented papers at health and nutrition conferences in Africa, Canada, USA and Asia. Furthermore, as the WVI Grants Manager (2014-2016), he coordinated the development of a state of the-art curriculum for the training of Community Health Workers (CHWs), an integral part of the Ghana Ministry of Health’s CHW Program. Seven countries have since adopted the Healthy Families model of the curriculum as a national program approach. He also served on the Ghana Ministry of Health (MoH) delegation which reviewed nutrition projects/ programs of Senegal under the South-South Peer Review Initiative of the West African Health Organization (WAHO) and the World Bank in 2012. Raymond was the Coordinator for a research study titled; An Explorational Study to Examine the Effectiveness of Community-based Ebola Virus Disease Prevention and Management Strategies in Bo District, Sierra Leone, commissioned by World Vision International and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was also a Co-Investigator of operations research titled; Acceptability of and Adherence to the use of Dispersible Zinc tablets in the Treatment of Diarrhea in Children Under 5 years in Ghana, conducted by the Family Health and Research and Development Divisions of the Ghana Health Service in partnership with World Vision International, WHO and UNICEF. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.