Esi Foriwa Amoaful
Esi Foriwa Amoaful is currently the Director of Nutrition at the Ghana Health Service. She is a nutritionist and public health specialist who has spent close to two decades working in program design and management, capacity development, advocacy and policy development, applied research with special focus on childhood and maternal nutrition, and micronutrient malnutrition prevention. She previously worked as the national program manager 1996 to 2013 leading the setting up of the Vitamin A Deficiency Control Program covering fortification; supplementation and promoting diversified diets.
Ms. Amoaful has conducted extensive research in nutrition and health covering vitamin A and related fields as research fellow and Research Technical Advisor.
She has worked in the area of nutrition, gender and agriculture linkages, chaired the Steering Committee of the Vitamin A for Africa (VITAA), a partnership project for promoting the increased production and utilization of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). A member of the SASHA project team and Sweetpotato Support Platform for West Africa that is making OFSP available to reduce micronutrient deficiency; and currently working on the Ghana Jumpstarting Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato through Diversified Markets Project that seeks to achieve nutritional impact through generating demand for OFSP and other vitamin-A rich foods in antenatal counseling program of the Ghana Health Service and in local markets.
She holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Biochemistry from the University of Ghana.