Board of Directors

Samuel Dery is a Data Science and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist with over fifteen years’ experience in HIV M&E and Public Health Research. He holds PhD in Public Health, MPhil in Health Informatics and BSc in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Ghana, Legon. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, where he teaches and supervises students in the Masters in Health Informatics (MHI), Master of Science in Public Health Monitoring and Evaluation (PHM&E) and Masters in Public Health (MPH) Programmes. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, designing and implementing M&E and health information systems, and data science. Samuel is part of a team of experts at the University of Ghana School of Public Health, that has over the years been involved in several biological and behavioural surveys (BBS) among key populations (KPs) and evaluating KPs programme implementation in Ghana. These include mapping, size estimation and BBS among various KP groups. He has also led in several research projects in health supply chain management including: Baseline evaluation of biometrically verifying malaria vaccine delivery and strengthening routine immunization data systems in Ghana; Development and implementation of key performance indicators (KPIs), standard operating procedures (SOP) and training curriculum to improve health supply chain management performance in Northern and Eastern Regions of Ghana; Assessing the relative preference of Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and barriers/challenges to malaria commodity availability across the entire supply chain in Ghana; Assessing motivation and performance outcomes of public sector health supply chain workers in the Northern and Eastern Regions of Ghana. Samuel is an M&E expert and has been involved in several M&E consultancies in and outside Ghana. He was the M&E consultant for the development of the 2023-2025 HIV/TB/Malaria Funding Request to the Global Fund for the Grant Cycle 7 application for Ghana. Consultant for Ghana’s HIV Epidemiological Review as part of the Midterm Review of the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (2021-2025). Consultant for the development of M&E framework, data collection and monitoring tools for human rights-related barriers to HIV and TB services in Ghana. Consultant for the revision of the national HIV and AIDS Data Management Manuals and Tools to guide the implementation of the national HIV and AIDS M&E Plans (2021-2025), (2016-2020). He was the consultant that undertook immunization data quality assessment and developed data quality improvement plan for The Gambia in 2019. This was with the support of the World Health Organization and included building the capacity of the country’s stakeholders to undertake routine data quality assessments for immunization. He has been involved in several administrative roles and membership of committees in and out of the University including membership of the University Academic Board, College of Health Science Academic Board, Admission Committee, Procurement Committee, Finance Committee, ICT Committee among others. He was the acting Head of Biostatistics Department from 2019 to 2021 and currently the Programme Coordinator for Master of Public Health (MPH).