Professor Margaret Gyapong has a disciplinary background in Medical Anthropology and Cultural Epidemiology with a PhD from the University of Basel. She is interested in research impact and has been a leader in this area bringing together the experiences of research institutions in Africa, Asia and Europe. In the last 25 years, Professor Gyapong has risen through the ranks of the research ladder to become a seasoned and internationally renowned Scientist. In 2005, she was Director of the Dodowa Health Research Centre. From humble beginnings at the Centre with few partners, Professor Gyapong attracted significant funders and grants to the institution on projects related to Health Systems, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Malaria, TB and Maternal and Child Health, Sanitation, Social Protection among others. She works at the intersection between health research and practice building research capacity at both national and international levels. Professor Gyapong leads the authorship and facilitation of workshops, task forces and demonstrates international leadership through service on several task forces, steering committees and working groups for the World Health Organization (Geneva), the Task Force for Global Health (Atlanta), the Standing Committee of the National Institute of Health (Washington DC) to mention a few. In Academia, Professor Gyapong holds professorial, adjunct professorial and senior lecturer positions at University of Health and Allied Sciences, Georgetown University, Brunel University and University of Ghana, and has supervised several masters and PhD students.

In January 2017, Professor Gyapong joined the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho Ghana where she is currently the Director of the Institute for Health Research and coordinates activities of the centre for health policy and implementation Research. In the same year, she was one of twelve women honoured by women in global health during the World Health Assembly to receive the first ever Heroines of Health award for her work drawing attention to the needs of women suffering from the consequences of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Professor Gyapong’s groundbreaking work in this field has driven much of our understanding of the gendered effects of NTDs, and female genital schistosomiasis. Recently, Professor Gyapong has received several noteworthy grants. She leads a Healthcare Utilisation Study to assess the rollout of the RTS,S malaria vaccine in Ghana (PATH) an IDRC grant on maternal and Adolescent health and in the final stages of EDCTP grant entitled, “The SAVING Project” to build capacity to address implementation challenges for Sustainable Access of New Vaccines in Ghana.

She is a reviewer and associate editor for a number of international journals and has 94 publications to her credit.