Dr. Gina Teddy (Esq). possesses a deep understanding of health systems and policy research, management and strategic planning, coupled with strong decision-making and communication skills. She is capable of driving positive change and fostering collaboration across teams and various levels of operations. She is personable and driven, with natural ability to lead and inspire. She also possesses professional leadership and significant expertise in governance and stakeholder engagement with proven ability to drive organizational success through collaboration, adaptability, and effective decision-making. She possesses strong skills in team building, conflict resolution and financial oversight. Known for her integrity, innovation and results-oriented approach, she has led initiatives that enhanced operational efficiencies and fostered culture of accountability. Lastly, She is collaborative in her approach to leadership and dedicated to building and leading talented and motivated individuals and teams
Co-Chair, Health Systems Global Teaching and Learning Thematic Working Group
Founded the Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research (CHESPOR) at GIMPA in 2015 making it the only thinktank in Ghana to promote health policy and systems issues.
Co-chaired the Teaching and Learning Thematic Working Group for Health Systems Global since 2017, making her the longest serving chair.
Selected Research Lead for the National Assignment on Seperating the Conjoined Twins at GARH, Accra.
Developed several curriculum for teaching and training in Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and most recently in the UAE.
Served as Chief Editor for the CHESPOR Policy Briefs since 2016 at GIMPA and for SYSTAC.
Championed the running of a series of policy dialogues on topical health issues in Ghana.
Published several health systems and capacity building journal articles.
was called to the Ghana Bar as barrister of the Superior Courts of Ghana
Led SYSTAC Africa to reach and have active members in 28 African countries.
Successfully won and run grants and research funding.
Health Law and Legal Ethic, University of Health Law and Legal Ethics Training at the University of Ghana Law School.
Process Mapping using BIGAZY Software for health systems and practice (online).
Women in Leadership and Sustainable Development, Health Systems Global E-Learning Webinar Series
E-Mentorship Training with AMREF Kenya on the E-Learning for Health System Strengthening for Leadership, Management & Governance, Nairobi, Kenya
Teaching methodology and assessment review training, a workshop health at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Accra Ghana.
Curriculum Development for Blended Learning Approach in Public Health, workshop training organised by the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. Introduction to Complex Health Systems (Training Workshop), University of the Western Cape Winter School Program, Cape Town, South Africa.
Introduction to Health Policy and Systems Research (Training Workshop), University of the Western Cape Winter School Program, Cape Town, South Africa.
Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop on Leadership, Management and Governance for Health (LMG) for Health Systems Strengthening organised by the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Nairobi, Kenya.
Supervising and Mentoring in Higher Education Institution a workshop organised by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Certificate in First Aid
Certificate in Risk Management and Risk Assessment
Certificate in Quality Assurance
Peer Reviewing and editing articles, workshop organised by the University of Ghana
Investing in Child Health to Transform Global Health (Pre-Conference Session) University of Toronto, Toronto - Canada.
Role of the Private Sector in Health Systems (Pre-Conference Symposium)
University of Toronto, Toronto-Canada.
Brush-Up in Health Economics (Pre-Conference Training) Faculty of Economics, University of Rome, Tor Vergata – Italy.
Elements of Health System Finance (Pre-Conference Training) Lund University, St. Algatan – Sweden.
Payment Mechanism in Health Financing (Pre-Conference Training) University Clermont Auvergne, France
SHORT BIO FOR DR. GINA TEDDY (ESQ.)
Dr. Gina Teddy, Esq. is the Head of Department for the Department of Public Management and International Relations at the School of Public Service and Governance at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). She is an expert in policy analysis, health systems and leadership and governance. She is also a lawyer although she considers herself an academic and leadership trainer. Dr. Teddy holds multiple roles as the lead for promoting systems thinking in Africa and the teaching of health systems and policy research globally.
She has been the co-chair for the teaching and Learning Thematic Working Group for Health Systems Global since 2018. She is the founder for the Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research (CHESPOR) at GIMPA. Gina coordinate health systems and Policy Research (HPSR) courses and provide capacity training programs targeting health managers and leaders at GIMPA and the University of the Western Cape’s School of Public Health Winter School. Gina is currently the SYSTAC Africa lead with the passion for promoting the use of systems thinking for practitioners, policymakers, frontline workers and researcher in Africa. She is also one of the leading executives of West African network of Leaders in Health Systems (WANEL).
Dr. Teddy completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town’s prestigious Health Policy and Systems Division in 2016 after her PhD at the University of York, England, UK. She holds a Masters and Bachelors in Sociology from the University of Ghana and her LLB in Law at GIMPA. She completed her Professional Law Course with the Ghana Law School following which she was called to the Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. She also completed her LLM from the University of Ghana in Health Law and Bio-ethics.
Dr. Teddy has expertise in Health System and Policy Research (HPSR), governance & leadership, health management and capacity building, policy analysis and implementation science, health financing and inter-sectoral action and multi-disciplinarity, mental health and currently enjoying sessions in health law and ethics. Her work has since informed a wide range of actors in the health sector from global to district levels.
Saulnier DD, Blanchet K, Canila C, …Teddy, G. et al. (2021) A health systems resilience research agenda: moving from concept to practice. BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e006779. doi:10.1136/ bmjgh-2021-006779
Opoku, D.; Edusei1, AK.; Agyei-Baffour, P.; Teddy, G.; Polin, K.; Quentin, W. (2021) “Ghana: health system review” European Journal of Public Health, Volume 31, Issue Supplement_3,October 2021, ckab164.577, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab164.577 14th European Public Health Conference. https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/31/Supplement_3/ckab164.577/6405184
Meike J. S., Avanti, R., Gomez, F.O., Teddy, G., Peters, D.H., Balabanova, D. (2020) Towards Core Competencies for Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) Training: Results from a Global Mapping and Consensus-Building Process. Int J Health Policy Manag 2020, x(x), 1–11 https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3994.html doi 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.258
Aitch, S., Segborwotso, RP, Akoriyea, SK., Teddy, G., Edusei, L., Hobenu, L., . . . Akakpo, P. (2020). Ghana’s Covid-19 Autopsy Reports – Cases from the Ga-East District Hospital and the 37 Military Hospital Ghana Medical Journal, 1-16.
Teddy, G., Molosiwa, D., Hwabamungu, B. & Lembani M. (2019) ‘Policy and Implementation Gap: A multi country perspective’ International Journal of Academic Research doi url: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/xxx
Teddy, G. (forthcoming) Health Policy Development and Systems Reforms in Ghana: A Historical Overview (book chapter under review)
Agyepong AI, Lehman U, Rutembemberwa E, Babich SM, Frimpong E, Kwamie A, Olivier J, Teddy G, Hwabamungu B & Gilson L (2017) Strategic leadership capacity building for Sub-Saharan Africa Health Systems and Public Health Governance: A multi country assessment of essential competencies and optional designfor a Pan African DrPH. Health Policy and Planning 2017: 1-15. doi:10.1093/heapol/czzx162
Molosiwa, D. & Teddy, G. (2019) Public health management and leadership – perspectives from the field, Botswana J. Ponte - Dec 2019 - Volume 75 - Issue 11. doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2019.11.10
Teddy, G., Molosiwa, D., Hwabamungu, B. & Lembani M. (2019) ‘Policy and Implementation Gap: A multi country perspective’, International Journal of Advanced Research 7 (12):678-704. DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/10197
Lembani M, Teddy G, Molosiwa D, Hwabamungu B. (2016) Post-doctoral research fellowship as a health policy and systems research capacity development intervention: a case of the CHESAI initiative. Health Research Policy and Systems. Vol.14 (89). doi:10.1186/s12961-016-0159-3.
Teddy, G., & Akoriyea, S. K. (October 4). (2016) “Ghana’s Response to National Emergencies and Disaster Management: An Advocacy for a Multisectoral Approach”. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/183605-MS
Teddy G. (2015) Scoping overview of workplace learning. Background paper for August 2015 workshop on Innovation in formal training: workplace based learning for health leadership development. Cape Town: Health Policy and Systems Division, University of Cape Town. (unpublished)
Teddy, G. (Forthcoming) The impact of power and politics on policy implementation and reforms in developing countries: The complexity of implementing Ghana’s Health Insurance (To be Submitted to BMC)
Teddy, G. (Forthcoming) Health Policy Development and Systems Reforms in Ghana: A Historical Overview (to be submitted to PLOS One)
Teddy, G (2015) Exploring workplace learning (WPL) to support health managers in the Western Cape Province: An option for leadership development in the health system (unpublished Paper for the Public Health Association of South Africa Pre-Conference Workshop)
Teddy, G. (2012) From Policy to Process: An Insider Perspective of Implementing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) at the Districts in Ghana. A PhD Dissertation Submitted to the University of York, UK
Teddy, G. (2005) ‘The socio-economic impact of Market Associations in Ghana: The case of the Mallam Atta Market’ Unpublished Masters Dissertation submitted to University of Ghana.
Bouchet, B.; Brookes, R., Deussom, R., Eboigbe, E., ... Molosiwa, D., and Teddy, G. (2024) Technical Brief: Approach for Operationalizing and Sustaining Systems Thinking for Health. A Collaboration between Chemonics Health Practice & SYSTAC Africa Hub
Teddy, G., Schleiff, M. & Gomez, F. O. (2017). Teaching and learning in Health Policy and Systems Research - getting involved in the next steps (Health Systems Global Blog 1stSept). Retrieve from http://www.hpsa-africa.org/index.php/hpsr-blog/models/135-teaching-and-learning-in-health-policy-and-systems-research-getting-involved-in-the-next-steps
Teddy G., (2016) Policy Implementation Gap: A multi Country Perspective (Policy Brief Issue 1) Retrieve from http://www.new.gimpa.edu.gh/userfiles/uploads/Policy%20brief_Issue_1_2016_Policy%20implementation%20gap.pdf
Teddy, G., & Akoriyea, S. K. (2016) Ghana’s Response to National Emergencies and Disaster Management: An Advocacy for a Multi-sectoral Approach (Policy Brief Issues 2). Retrieve from http://nweb.gimpa.edu.gh/research-advocacy/chespor/policy-brief/
Teddy, G., (2016) Sustainable Development Goals: How far is Ghana in the first 1000 days of the SDGS. (Policy Brief Issues 3) Retrieve from http://nweb.gimpa.6.gh/research-advocacy/chespor/policy-brief/
Teddy, G., Lembani, M. & Lehman, U. (2016) Volunteering for the 3rd HSR Global Symposium: Lessons from Cape Town 2014 (CHESAI Blog June). Retrieve from http://www.chesai.org/index.php/blog/64-volunteering-for-the-3rd-hsr-global-symposium-lessons-from-cape-town-2014
Scot, V., Teddy, G. & Garimella, S. (2016) Emerging Educators in Health Policy and Systems Research: Support, Strengths and Challenges in the Global South (CHEPSAA Blog, 27th Feb). Retrieve from http://www.hpsa-africa.org/index.php/hpsr-blog/key-debates/126-emerging-educators-in-health-policy-and-systems-research-support-strengths-and-challenges-in-the-global-south
Molosiwa, D. & Teddy, G. (2016). Writing for and in HPSR: the challenges and rewards of collective writing (CHESAI Blog, 5th Sept). Retrieve from http://www.chesai.org/index.php/about-us/blog/61-writing-for-and-in-hpsr-the-challenges-and-rewards-of-collective-writing
Lembani, M. & Teddy, G. (2016) Writing for and in HPSR: The Joy of the Writing Retreat (CHESAI Blog 17th Sept). Retrieve from http://www.chesai.org/index.php/about-us/blog/62-writing-for-and-in-hpsr-the-joy-of-the-writing-retreat
Decolonising Knowledge for just health systems: The implications for capacity building and institutional building for HPSR. An oral presentation at the Health Global Symposium in Nagasaki, Japan on the 19th November 2024
Health Governance, Human Security and Health Equity in an Era of Polycrises. An oral presentation at the Health Global Symposium in Nagasaki, Japan on the 20th November 2024
Operationalising Systems Thinking for Health: Expert Convening. Panel Convenor at the 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) in Lusaka - Zambia on 29th November 2023.
‘Multi-Sectoral Action for National Development: The role of other Sectors and the Community in Health Sector Development’ Oral presentation at the International Conference on Public Administration (ICPA) held at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Accra – Ghana in November 2017.
‘Evaluating the impact of political power on policy implementation and health systems: Comparative experience from Ghana, Malawi and Botswana’ Oral presentation at the 12th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, Boston University, Boston - USA in July 2017.
‘The impact of power and politics on policy implementation and reforms in developing countries: The complexity of implementing Ghana’s Health Insurance’ Oral Presentation at the Health Systems Global 4th Symposium in Vancouver in November, 2016.
‘Policy and Implementation Gap: A multi-country perspective’ Oral Presentation at the upcoming AfHEA conference in Rabat Morrocco on the 25-29thSeptember, 2016.
‘Ghana's Response to National Emergencies and Disaster Management: An Advocacy for a Multisectoral Approach’ Oral Presentation for the upcoming International Society for Petroleum Engineers in Accra in Oct, 2016.
‘Using informal networks as resilience strategy to achieve implementation of a health policy in Ghana’ Oral presentation at the International Society for International Research Society for Public Management Conference in March 2015
‘Exploring workplace learning (WPL) to support health managers in the Western Cape Province: An option for leadership development in the health system’ Oral Presentation at the 2015 Public Health Association of South African Conference in Oct, 2015
‘The Applicability of Social Health Insurance in Ghana: Resident’s earlier experience of the National Health Insurance Scheme’. Oral and poster presentation at the IHEA 8th World Congress, (10-13thJuly, 2011), Toronto, Canada.
‘Policy Decision and Community Participation in Health: Understanding the public’s view of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)’. Poster presented at the Alcuin Research and Resource Centre (ARRC) Conference, (21 July, 2009) University of York and a paper later presented at 3rd Annual Graduate Conference on Social Science and Humanities (8-9th October, 2009), University of Bradford.
‘The impact of coordination and policy networks on the National Health Insurance Policy in Ghana’. Paper presented at the inaugural Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) (10th – 12th March 2009); La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana.
‘Analyzing Coordination in Healthcare Policy Implementation: An assessment of the National Health Insurance Programme’. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Health Economics (ECHE) at University of Rome, Tor Vergata (26.07.08)
‘The Centrality of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Increasing Access to Healthcare in Ghana’. Paper presented at the 1st AGGOSS Seminar, University College of London, (24.06.08)
‘The Processes of Coordination and Policy Networks in Policy Implementation and Delivery of the National Health Insurance Scheme’. Seminar presented at the postgraduate meetings, University of York (28.5.2008)
‘Health financing policies in Ghana: The journey to National Health Insurance Scheme’. Postal Presentation at the 5THInternational Health Economics Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark (09.07.07).
‘Participation in healthcare: A comparative analysis of the models of community involvement used in Developed and Developing countries’. Paper presented at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference 2006 at University of Birmingham (21.07.06).
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