Dr. Morkor Newman Owiredu is a public health physician, currently leading the work on the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B virus, and women’s health in HIV within the Treatment and Care team of the Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI programs in the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. This area of work represents an important intersection between the response to HIV and the strengthening of the reproductive, maternal, and child health platforms.
She formerly worked in the Africa Regional Office for WHO and before that, within the HIV unit of the Ghana WHO country office. She has extensive experience in communicable disease programming, prevention, and control, particularly the HIV response in adolescents, women, and children as well as in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health programs. She is a graduate of the University of Ghana Medical School and its School of Public Health and before joining WHO worked extensively in the Ministry of Health of Ghana in various capacities including as a hospital manager, clinician, trainer-of-trainers in child and adolescent health, and several other programs including school health.
She is particularly interested in mentoring younger colleagues and others she meets in the course of her work and strives to support civil society organizations to fulfill their mandate