Elizabeth Hammah is an accomplished health professional with over twenty-five years of experience in program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, contract and cooperative agreement management, staff capacity building, and reporting for international organizations and businesses.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Hammah serves as an Associate Director on the Ghana team, providing technical and program management leadership for health systems design and primary health care reform. She supports the Government of Ghana’s free primary health care policy initiative and has cultivated strategic relationships with national, regional, and district stakeholders within the Ministry of Health, agencies and donor partners. She also leads the development of key deliverables, including technical tools, reports and guidelines.
Throughout her career, Ms. Hammah has focused on strengthening government health systems in health financing, service delivery, information management, workforce development, and supply chain management. She has built the capacity of regional and district health teams to mobilize resources for local problem-solving, overseeing more than 60 grants that prioritized data-driven decision-making. Most recently, she led the pilot of a primary health service delivery reform that is currently being scaled nationally to advance Ghana’s goal of universal health coverage (UHC).
Before joining R4D, Ms. Hammah led a nationwide initiative promoting monitoring and evaluation in program design and implementation, oversaw reporting and communications for USAID-funded projects, prepared technical documentation and policy briefs, and supported technical staff in presenting project results at local and international conferences.
Ms. Hammah holds a master’s degree in population studies and a BSc in statistics from the University of Ghana, Legon. She is fluent in English and three local Ghanaian languages.
