Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA 

Dr. Nana A. Y. Twum-Danso is a physician executive with more than 20 years of experience working at the interface of health care and public health in a wide range of political, socioeconomic, cultural and linguistic contexts in Latin America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the USA. Her technical areas of expertise include quality improvement, patient safety, learning systems development, large-scale change management, health systems strengthening, community health, maternal and child health, parasitic disease control, and pharmacovigilance. She has applied her skills and talents to public health policy and practice, strategy development, monitoring, learning, evaluation, research, and philanthropy at local, national, and international levels, including several years as a social entrepreneur in health transportation in northern Ghana. Currently, Dr. Twum-Danso is Senior Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) where she has top-line revenue responsibility for IHI’s consulting portfolio that assists health care and public health systems around the world to improve outcomes that matter to patients, families, communities, and the health workforce. She serves on IHI’s Executive Team. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the US. Since 2008, Dr. Twum-Danso has served on advisory committees for global health institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine and the Canadian International Development Research Centre. She was also a Commissioner for the seminal Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era which was published in 2018. Dr. Twum-Danso received her undergraduate and medical education from Harvard University and her public health and preventive medicine residency training from Emory University. She has been a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine since 2006 and is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the International Society for Quality in Health Care and Health Systems Global.