Nana A. Mensah-Abrampah is a Technical Officer within the Service Delivery and Safety Department at the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva. In this role, she facilitates WHO's work at the central and district level in driving safe reactivation of essential health services and core health systems functions in the three Ebola-affected countries and health service preparedness for overall WHO response to the Zika outbreak. Within the context of Universal Health Coverage and its linkages to quality of care, Ms Mensah Abrampah provides technical and strategic programmatic support in a number of areas.
Prior to joining WHO, she worked as a consultant on quality improvement, health systems thinking and the spread of sustainable innovations in Tanzania. In Malawi, she worked at a tertiary referral hospital in Lilongwe where she researched health system barriers for rational use of antibiotics. For several years, she worked in numerous capacities under the auspices of the USAID Health Care Improvement project, a global mechanism for applying improvement approaches that enhance health care in more than 30 countries within Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Ms Mensah-Abrampah holds a BSc Econ and a MSc in International Health.