Leonard Baatiema

Dr. Leonard Baatiema is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana. He is a Fogarty Global Health Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an AfOx Fellow. Leonard holds a PhD in Public Health from Australian Catholic University, Sydney (Australia), and an MSc in Health, Community, and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London (UK). His research interests include health systems transformation in sub-Saharan Africa, health sector reforms for UHC, and primary health care reforms to improve NCD care. In the Bernard Lown Scholars Program, he is interested in how peer support systems, such as patient navigators, can improve access and overall health outcomes for people living with hypertension and diabetes in Ghana.