Dr Samuel Akortey Akor is the President of the Islamic Welfare Aid and Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Islamic Nursing School. He is a Public Health Physician Consultant by profession and Health Systems Consultant. He is the Deputy Rector (Finance and Administ ration) and also the Dean of the School of Medical and Health Sciences of the MountCrest University College.
Dr Samuel Akortey Akor, is a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and has an MA in Health Policy, Leeds, Leeds, UK, MCommH from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK BSc (Human Biology) MB ChB from University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
He has held various positions such as Lecturer (1989 – 2001) and Head of the Department of Community Health (1996 – 1998 and 2001), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology School of Medical Sciences. On return from his postgraduate studies, he was appointed the Director of the Rural Health Training School, Kintampo, an institution that trains middle level health personnel including Medical Assistants from1989 – 2001. Thus, he has considerable experience in health and medical education in Ghana. During the same period, he was also the Director of Health Services, Kintampo District.
Dr Akor was the Director, Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Health from 2001 to 2004 under whose leadership the policy and legal framework for the National Health Insurance Scheme was developed. Besides, he has undertaken a number of policy formulation and analysis and development of services standards while holding the directorship position and also while serving at the district level. Subsequently, Dr Akor was appointed the rst Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Council (2004 – 2005), a Council that regulates Health Insurance industry in Ghana. Prior to that, he led in the design of the entire national health insurance scheme and the establishment of 125 District Mutual Health Insurance Schemes in the country including the development of the accreditation tools for assessing health care providers based on the expected standards of service provision.
Further, Dr Akor led the piloting of the National Ambulance System in Ghana and initiated the policy framework for legislation of the National Ambulance Service. He has undertaken several consultancy work in Health Systems in Ghana and Nigeria with his latest work on Baseline Study for JICA Programme in Upper West Region, Ghana and institutional reforms and assessment of institutional capacity in Ghana and Nigeria.
Dr Akor has considerable experience in the Health Service industry in Ghana. He is currently assisting Micap Institute of Technology in developing a Virtual University of Technology in Ghana. He is married with children.
Areas of Competence are: Research Protocol Development, Health System Research and Report Writing Health Policy Analysis, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, Design and Implementation of National Health Insurance, Institutional Capacity Analysis, Human Resource Development (Training), Training Needs Assessment/Performance Appraisal, Curriculum Review/Development and Instructional Planning, Project Management, Project Proposal Development, Organizational Development, Health Management Development. He has extensive knowledge of and experience in Decentralization (as Government appointee to District Assembly and served on the Executive Committee and Social Sector Sub-Committee for 8 years)
