Adwoa Twum is a global health professional with more than 15 years of experience working with governments to strengthen health systems through financing and system performance measurement and monitoring. Ms. Twum works at the intersection of policy development and implementation to create an enabling environment for translating policies into pragmatic solutions that improve outcomes.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms.Twum is an associate director on the health team, leading implementation of the Frequent Assessments and Health Systems Tools for Resilience (FASTR) program in Ghana and the scale-up to other African countries through a series of practitioner technical exchanges. She has broad experience in health systems strengthening and financing from her previous work on USAID’s Maternal Child Health Survival Program, Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator, and Indonesia TB Private Sector program. Ms. Twum led the development of Ghana’s Primary Health Care Performance Initiative model and served as a technical facilitator on the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage.
Ms. Twum’s career has focused on health financing and primary health care performance monitoring, and in 2015, she managed the committee leading the presidential Blue Ribbon Committee to review Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme, which is now serving as the blueprint for implementation of Ghana’s free primary health care policy.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Twum worked at Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority, where she managed the development of the relationship between the authority and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare and selected five key areas for long-term collaboration between the two organizations. She also facilitated the development and piloting of the authority’s Claim-IT application being used for claims submissions and adjudication.
Ms. Twum has an MPH from Virginia Commonwealth University and a bachelor’s degree in biological science from the University of Cape Coast. She speaks Fanti and Twi from her native Ghana and speaks fluent English.
