Elizabeth Hammah is an accomplished health professional with over twenty years of experience in program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, contractual/cooperative agreements, staff capacity building and reporting for international organizations and businesses.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Hammah is an associate director with the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator project in Ghana where she provides technical and program management leadership for the primary care network program. She manages a geographically dispersed team in Ghana and the U.S., and relationships with key external partners, including national, regional and district stakeholders. She also leads the development of key deliverables, including technical tools, workshop reports and operational guidelines.
Throughout her career, Ms. Hammah has focused on supporting government agencies to strengthen health systems including health financing, information management, workforce capacity, and supply chain management. She has built the capacity of regional and district health management teams to source and mobilize resources for local problem-solving by overseeing over 60 grants prioritizing use of data. She recently led the pilot of a primary health service delivery reform currently being scaled up in Ghana for universal health coverage.
Previous to her work in health systems strengthening, Ms. Hammah led a nationwide effort in Ghana to promote and fund monitoring and evaluation in programming. In another project, she oversaw preparation and submission of reports and updates to USAID, led communication activities including supporting technical staff present project accomplishments at local and international conferences, and developed project documentation, technical and policy briefs.
Ms. Hammah holds a master’s degree in Population Studies and a BSc in statistics from the University of Ghana, Legon. She speaks fluent English and three local languages.
