Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye is the Chief Executive of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority. He is a Medical Practitioner and a Politician. Throughout his career, Dr. Okoe Boye has been passionately committed to making a difference in people’s lives. 

Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive, Dr. Okoe Boye was a Board Member of the National Health Insurance Authority from 2021 to date. He served as a Deputy Minister for Health from 2020 to 2021. In 2018 he was appointed by the President, H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as the Board Chairman of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, the premier tertiary healthcare facility in Ghana.

Dr. Okoe Boye has a long history of community service. In 2016, he was elected to serve in the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic as a Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku Constituency in Greater Accra Region.  At Parliament, he served on the Health Committee. 

Since 2017 to date, he has been working at the LEKMA Hospital in Teshie, Accra, as a Medical Officer on a pro bono basis offering to support the hospital and his community at no expense to the hospital. From 2016 to 2017, he worked in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a Medical Officer at the La General Hospital in the Greater Accra Region. Prior to joining La General Hospital, he worked as a Medical Officer and Researcher at Kibi Government Hospital in the Eastern Region from 2012 to 2016.

Between 2009 and 2012 he interned as a House Officer at the Central Regional Hospital, Departments of Surgery, Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology; and then at Tema General Hospital.

He is a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he holds a degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) and a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology.  He has a Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) from Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Humburg University of Applied Sciences) Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Okoe Boye holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Accra Business School and a Professional Executive Master of Alternative Dispute Resolution from Gamey and Gamey ADR Institute & the University of the Virgin Island, USA.

He has authored three books to his credit namely “The Audacity of Ambition”, “High Blood Pressure In Black People, An Explanation of what High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) is, How to prevent it, and preserve life”, and “The Mother In The Monster – Calming the storm at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital; Leadership At A Tough Terrain”.
He is married with three children.

Mrs. Yaa Pokuaa Baiden has a vast working experience in Management, Sales and Marketing, Procurement and Supply Chain systems within the pharmaceutical and health institutions in Ghana spanning both the public and private sectors. She has also held various leadership positions within the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, including her current role as the Chairperson for the Western Region. Prior to her appointment she was a senior pharmacist at Takoradi Hospital.

She worked at Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital and was in Senior Management position at DAAMASS Company and DANAFCO Limited where she developed business strategies to drive superior market place execution while maximising brand performance. She is credited with redesigning business processes to increase organisational efficiency and profitability.

Yaa Pokuaa holds a B. Pharm from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana; a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the International Professional Managers Association, UK; an MBA in Project Management from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and an MBA from the Swiss Management Centre University. She is a Board member of the Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management Consultants, Ghana, and a Chartered Professional Administrator.

She has published articles in Quality Assurance and Internal Audit Performance. Yaa Baiden is an astute Administrator who is practically oriented and ethically guided to manage business operations & management systems of an entity with scarce resources.

Francis Owusu has over 25 years working experience in Corporate Finance, Banking, and Investment Analysis in Ghana and abroad. As a senior management member in most of the organizations he worked, he was involved in corporate strategy, policy development & direction and general management.

Francis served as a General Manager at Bedrock Venture Capital Finance Company, where his responsibility included due diligence, policy review and evaluation of prospective investee companies. He was also the Head of Credit at GN Bank at the critical time of the banks operations where he made significant contributions to the bank’s growth. At GN Bank, he managed and monitored high end client portfolio and ensured compliance with agreed covenants.

Prior to this, Francis worked with United Technologies Corp (Pratt and Whitney) in Connecticut in the United States. He was responsible for providing pricing for all large Engines Business products to ensure price competitiveness and meeting stringent company targets. He had a stint with AT&T Corp in New Jersey in the United States serving in the capacities as Market Analyst, Pricing Product Manager, Finance Manager and Strategy Manager.

Francis has a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and International Business from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York and a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Accounting from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also obtained a Master’s Certificate of Project Management from Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey.

Mrs Vivian Addo-Cobbiah, Deputy Chief Executive- Operations, is a health professional with thirty-seven (37) years demonstrated experience in healthcare service provision and health financing.

Vivian worked as a nurse and a midwife in various capacities at the managed care levels from primary through secondary and to tertiary levels from 1984 to 2008 and has a very good understanding of the Ghana Health System.

She joined health insurance in August 2008 as Provider Services Coordinator and played a lead role in in the design and implementation of the NHIA accreditation system as a quality measure in 2009. Through her innovations and with the support of the then Executive Management, she introduced Compliance Audit in 2015 as a cost containment strategy at NHIA to augment the existing Clinical Audit process.

She has risen through the ranks from Operations (specifically accreditation and Quality department), Claims, and Quality Assurance Directorates with considerable number of years’ experience in NHIA credentialing systems, claims management, Clinical and compliance audit processes and supported the reviews of the NHIS Benefit Package.

Prior to her current position, Vivian was the Ag Director for Quality Assurance and served on the NHIS benefit Package Review Committee, NHIA Credentialing Tools Review Committee, the Medium-Term Strategic Plan Development Team, National Quality Committee and many more. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Health Facilities Regulatory Agency.

Vivian Addo-Cobbiah holds master’s degree in Hospital Management, Monitoring and Evaluation option, from University of Leeds, UK, certificate in Economic Evaluation in Global Health from University of Washington and an accredited Healthcare Fraud Specialist from University of Portsmouth.

Currently she is the Chair for the Ghana Chapter of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, with over 34 member countries globally. She has attended over fifteen international conferences in countries such as India, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Netherlands and South Korea, to represent NHIA either as a participant, a speaker or as a panel member on health financing, healthcare quality and universal health coverage related issues
She has two publications to her advantage. 

Mr. Ben Kusi, Director for Membership and Regional Operations at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Ghana, has expertise in targeting the poor and implementing strategies for registration of all categories of residents in Ghana, especially the poor and the vulnerable in the hard to reach communities in Ghana. He is credited for leading various activities organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection leading to sustained efforts at registering and renewing NHIS membership for the Aged, LEAP (Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty) beneficiaries, Prison Inmates, Orphans, head potters and various disability groups.

Prior to his current position which started in June, 2013, he was the Director of ICT for NHIA from November, 2005. He has experience in the development and implementation of IT strategy and has managed large scale multi-million dollar IT projects in Ghana’s NHIA, Bank of Ghana, NHS Trusts, UK and University of Westminster, spanning over 24 years.

He is educated to postgraduate level with a Degree in Electronic Engineering from Middlesex University, UK and postgraduate in Information Systems Design from University of Westminster, UK. He has intense training in management and leadership skills at Harvard Business School, Corporate Business PLC, UK, to take on an extensive scope of responsibility with proven track record of effectively applying key business fundamentals to deliver optimal results.

Prior to his present appointment, Dr. Gustav G.L Cruickshank was a lecturer in MBA, MSc and BSc degree programs in various institutions in the UK. He also worked with organizations such as Arthur Andersen representative office, Intercontinental Bank, LCBM (UK), Gabem Group (UK), Zenith Aegis Ltd (UK and Ghana).

 He has over fifteen years international experience in management consultancy, accounting, finance, auditing and operations and strategic planning. Dr. Gustav Cruickshank is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA in Finance and PhD in Strategic Management.

He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK (FCCA), the Institute of Financial Accountants UK (FFA), the Institute of Business Consultancy UK (FIBC), a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG) and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).

Mr. Ahmed Imoro joined the Controller and Accountant General Department in 1995 and was seconded to National Health Insurance Authority as Principal Accountant in 2005. He was later appointed the substantive Deputy Director of Finance and has since 2006 been the Acting Director of Finance.

Mr. Ahmed Imoro has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA- Finance) and a Bachelors degree in Business Administration (Accounting and Finance) from European University of Lefke.

Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei, a Public/Allied Health Professional and Educationist, is the Director of Administration. He has over 35 years of work experience in the Education and Health sectors, holding positions at both the policy and operational levels. Prior to his present appointment, he served as Acting Director of Monitoring & Evaluation/Special Projects, Deputy Director of Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation/Partner Relations, Deputy Director of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Deputy Director of Operations, Special Projects Co-ordinator at the Office of the Chief Executive; and Deputy Director of Policy Planning Monitoring & Evaluation, doubling as the National Schemes Coordinator. He had earlier served as Deputy Hospital Administrator, Acting Executive Secretary of Catholic Diocesan Health Services, Catholic Diocesan Development Co-ordinator, Special Assistant to Minister of Health, Regulatory Officer at Food and Drugs Authority and Principal Teacher-Ghana Education Service.

As Deputy Hospital Administrator, he introduced innovations into the hospital administration and moved the hospital from a 120-bed to 150-bed capacity within 3 years. He worked on European Union-funded Primary Health Care Micro-Projects programme, first as Project Secretary and, subsequently, as Project Coordinator. As Special Assistant to the Minister of Health, he served on the inter-ministerial task team that developed and sought to the adoption of Ghana’s national health insurance policy and its legislation.  In his pioneering years at the NHIA, he played a “stop-gap” role in the absence of the then Executive Secretary (ES) of the then National Health Insurance Council (NHIC) during which period he coordinated and supervised the establishment and commissioning of over 50 district mutual health insurance schemes (DMHIS) across Ghana. Since assuming the role of Director of Research, he has successfully led to completion, a research project titled “Enhancing enrolment onto the NHIS to achieve Universal Health Coverage” in the Volta Region.
 
Beyond the NHIA, he has provided consultancy services in (social) health insurance design and implementation for the Republics of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Liberia; and facilitated capacity building workshops for health insurance personnel in Ethiopia, Ghana and Zimbabwe. He has given lectures on Ghana’s NHIS at the Columbia University in New York and the (KIT) Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. His areas of expertise include Health Sector Planning and Financing, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation of health insurance schemes, Social Health Insurance Design and Implementation, Strategic Communication for Development and Advocacy, Social Capital Mobilisation for Development, Health Policy and Systems Research and Teaching/Mentoring.

Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei holds Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Medical Sciences, Master of Public Health, Master of Science-Health Services Planning & Management, and Post-Graduate Diploma in Research Methods & Skills, Bachelor of Arts Combined Honours (English & French) degrees, and Teachers’ Diploma (French Education). He has attended job-related flagship/competency-based courses including, Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing, Global Health Leadership Forum for Senior Health Executives, Health Administration and Management for Senior Health Personnel, and Strategic Communication for Development and Advocacy; Introduction to Understanding and Analysing Health Policy and Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research. He has also participated in the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET), Results-Based Management: Performance Indicators, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, Advanced Course in Monitoring and Evaluation and Mixed Methods in International Health Research.

Dr. Francis Mensah Asenso-Boadi, Director, Provider Payments Directorate (PPD) has in-depth expertise of the Health insurance with over a dozen peer reviewed papers to his credit.

He is responsible for providing economic inputs to the setting of prices of medicines and tariffs for the benefit package of the NHIS. Prior to heading the PPD, Dr Asenso-Boadi was the Deputy Director for Policy and Research and was in charge of surveys and dealing with research proposals in the Research & Development Directorate. He was also the Co-Principal Investigator for a collaborative research work between the NHIA and Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) which was undertaken in the Volta region of Ghana.

He was the national Coordinator for the pilot of inclusion of family planning as part of the NHIS benefit package.
Before joining the NHIA in August 2007, Dr. Asenso-Boadi taught as a lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast where he introduced two new courses, namely Health Economics and Economics of HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Asenso-Boadi has a PhD in Economics (specializing in Health Care Financing) from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland with his thesis titled “Finding sustainable means of financing health care in Ghana: are the people willing to pay?” which is published as a book. He also holds an MBA in General Business Administration from Hull University, England and a first class honours bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Cape Coast. 

Nicholas Afram Osei is Director of Claims with over 15 years’ experience in the Health Insurance industry. He began his career in Health Insurance Industry with Ghana Healthcare Company from where he joined the NHIA in 2007 as Claims Manager. 

He has since risen through the ranks by working in various Departments/Units of the Authority including Operations and Clinical Audit.  He also served as the Regional Manager for Brong-Ahafo Region in 2009 with additional oversight responsibilities over Berekum, Tano North, Techiman and Asunafo North as Scheme Manager. 

He has led several training sessions on claims, tariffs and medicines list for district staff and as well as NHIS service providers.

Prior to joining the NHIA Mr. Afram also worked in various Health Institutions including Manna Mission Hospital, 37 Military Hospital and The Trust (SSNIT) Hospital. In Accra.

Afram has a Bsc (Hons) in Nursing with Psychology as well as Master of Business Administration (Health Services Option) from the University of Ghana