About Stephen 

Stephen Aning-Kwarteng, PhD, leads CEND’s health program, which includes teams focusing on health systems and health areas across the life cycle, including family planning and reproductive health, maternal, newborn, and child health, malaria, nutrition, HIV, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis (HIV/TB/VH); and noncommunicable diseases.

Dr. Stephen is a skilled project designer with broad experience in health program identification, formulation, implementation planning, and budgeting. Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Stephen led PATH’s global HIV/TB/VH portfolio, including the US Agency for International Development/PATH Support for Technical Excellence and Private Sector Sustainability in Ghana project, which leverages innovation and partnerships to increase access to essential health services for key populations.

Dr. Stephen has more than 13 years of experience in public health management, policy development, and research. He deeply believes in the power of primary health care to improve health access and equity and is specifically interested in health service delivery innovations, the role of community and lay providers in delivering health care, self-care and digital health, private-public sector partnerships, and social and behavior change communication.

He holds a master’s degree in international health and development and a PhD from the KNUST School of Medical Sciences.