Dr. Nana Twum-Danso is a Senior Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) where she has top-line revenue responsibility for IHI’s results-oriented consulting portfolio that focuses on health care and public health systems around the world. She is a public health and preventive medicine physician with more than 20 years of experience in health policy, practice, strategy, monitoring, learning, evaluation, research, and philanthropy at local, national, and international levels.  Her technical areas of expertise include quality improvement, patient safety, learning systems development, large-scale change management, health systems strengthening, maternal and child health, parasitic disease control, and pharmacovigilance while her work experience has spanned a wide range of political, socioeconomic, cultural and linguistic contexts in Latin America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the USA.

Dr. Twum-Danso received her undergraduate and medical education from Harvard University and her public health and preventive medicine residency training from Emory University. She has been a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine since 2006 and is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the International Society for Quality in Health Care and Health Systems Global.