Former Pharmacist Studies Home Country’s Medicines Management

Paul G. Ashigbie, a global health research fellow, has published his first paper as lead [...]author—and he says the subject couldn’t be more fitting.

The qualitative study, “Challenges of Medicines Management in the Public and Private Sector Under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme,” in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, is an exciting step for Ashigbie, who began his career as a community pharmacist in Ghana’s capital, Accra.

His path to the School of Public Health began in 2006, when the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a recommendation to change the way much of the world was treating malaria. “I saw how a policy trickled down as an international recommendation, was adopted by the ministry of health in Ghana, the role providers played, the role industry played,” says Ashigbie, who was then working as a pharmacist and a medical representative for a Ghanaian pharmaceutical company, as well as educating health workers on the new recommendation.

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