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Director of Research Statistics and Information Management (RSIM)

Dr Wisdom Atiwoto

Dr. Wisdom Atiwoto is a multidisciplinary specialist with advanced leadership and technical skills in digitalization (Digital Health & Informatics), healthcare leadership and health systems strengthening specifically health financing, spatial data science, climate change in health, program and project management and has been involved in the digital transformation currently ongoing in Ghana health sector. As the Director of Research Statistics and Information Management (RSIM) at the Ministry of Health, He is providing lead for the digital transformation of Ghana’s health sector and is responsible for advancing the practice of data-driven decision-making in the sector. He is also responsible for setting up a sector- responsive research agenda covering diverse areas such as climate change in health. Before joining the Ministry of Health, Dr. Atiwoto had worked with the Ghana Health Service as a Health Informatics specialist and was the team lead for Monitoring and Evaluation and was part of the team that conceptualize new initiatives that looked at the reorganization of services at the subdistrict level. He had previously served as the Chief digitalization Officer of the Ghana Armed Forces Medical Service. Having previously served as a lecturer in the biostatistics department of the University of Ghana School of Public Health’s Master’s in Health Informatics program, Dr. Atiwoto was involved in curriculum development, instructional design, and delivery for both in-person and online digital learning. Dr Atiwoto is an experienced physician with graduate training in health informatics and has extensive knowledge in informatics practice with 20 years of involvement in various digital health initiatives. He has informatics consulting experience involving private, public, and non-state organizations operating in Ghana’s health system, in areas such as patient care, public health programs, health insurance, monitoring, and evaluation among others. He is a thought leader in areas such as Telehealth, Electronic Health Records (EMR), Health data standards, healthcare big data analytics, climate change in health. Dr. Wisdom Atiwoto holds a degree in Medicine from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a Master of Philosophy in Health Informatics from the University of Ghana. He has over the years received additional training on Project Management, Research systems, data science, and is currently into evidence-based practice inpublic policy and has also been involved in the development of innovative ways of using data science and machine learning to drive the culture of data-driven decision making to improve health outcomes.

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