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Agyeman Badu Akosa is a Ghanaian pathologist, academic, politician and social commentator. He served as the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service from 2002 to 2006. He is a member of the Convention People's Party and is a well-known believer in the ideals of Kwame Nkrumah, founder of the CPP. He contested for the Party's presidential candidate ahead the 2008 General elections. He is a professor of Pathology and an advocate on lifestyle issues.

 

Akosa started his career as a House Officer at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana from 1979 to 1980, then went on to start his residency specializing in pathology at the same hospital from 1980 to 1982. He moved to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital in London to work and understudy as a registrar from 1984 to 1986, then as a senior registrar from 1986 to 1990 at the Hammersmith Hospital. He also worked at the St. Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1995, Akosa worked as a consultant and director at the Whipps Cross Hospital, London. In 1996, he returned to Ghana after his work and study experience to work at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as the director of pathology. He also worked as the Head of department of Pathology at the University of Ghana Medical School. He rose to the rank of professor of pathology at the University of Ghana Medical school. In 2002, Akosa was appointed by President John Agyekum Kufuor to serve as the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service. He served from March 2002 to June 2006. Akosa is a member of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and the Commonwealth Medical Association and has served as president on both associations in past, serving as President of GMA from 1999 to 2001. He is also a member of the Royal College Pathologists (London), British Medical Association, British Society Dermatopathologists and also the New York Academy of Sciences.

 

Akosa has worked several times under the World Health Organization(WHO), including working as the WHO Advisor on Polio Eradication in Nigeria and as president of the WHO AFRO Task Force on Immunization. As an academic and researcher, Akosa has authored over 60 scientific publications, abstracts and conference monographs including contributing to The Global Report on Research for Infectious Diseases of Poverty of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). As a politician and social commentator, he has also authored over 50 socioeconomic articles in Ghana's leading newspaper, the Daily Graphic as well as other newspapers and channels. He is mostly interviewed several times on Ghanaian mainstream television and radio stations to comment on topics ranging from politics, healthcare delivery to lifestyles choices.

 

Akosa was honoured in 2006 by President John Agyekum Kufuor with Companion of the Order of the Volta for Public and Medical Services (CV) which is the second-highest award in Ghana. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Ghana Medical Association, the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, the West African College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. Akosa is currently the head of the Pathology Unit of the Ghana Standards Authority and a Board of Trustee of the African Cancer Organisation.