Dr. (Mrs) Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt B.Pharm. MA, MA, MA, FPSGH, FPCPharm, FGCPharm, PharmD

Dr. (Mrs.) Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt is health policy analyst with specialty in Pharmaceutical policy with over 35 years of public service at the management level.

Martha is a product of KNUST Ghana, Leeds University, United Kingdom in Health Policy and GIMPA’s School of Governance and Leadership for Leadership and Governance. Martha also holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy from KNUST, Ghana and Master of Arts in Ministries from Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.

She serves on several national and international boards and also was a Lancet Commissioner on Essential Medicines in 2015. She is an Expert member of the World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Medicines Policy and Management and also of Medicines Patent Pool, Geneva. She has several publications on various topics like Universal Health Coverage, TRIPS, DOHA and Access to medicines, policy options for Ghana, Antibiotic Resistance in Ghana by Lancet Infectious Diseases, Global governance of antimicrobial resistance also by Lancet, among others.

Martha was the immediate Member/Secretary for African Palliative Care Association (Pro Bono). Dr Gyansa-Lutterodt is the Chairman of the Ghana Chapter of West Africa Post Graduate College of Pharmacists and Head of Division of Social and Administrative Pharmacy and Public Health Pharmacy of the Ghana College of Pharmacists, as well as Head of Faculty of Public Health Pharmacy. She was an Expert member of United Nations Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2019.

Dr Gyansa-Lutterodt was the first Female Chief Pharmacist and Director of Pharmaceutical Services and until June 2022 was the first substantive Director of Technical Coordination, Ministry of Health when she retired from Public Service.

Martha is married to Rev. Manford Gyansa-Lutterodt (Esq.) and has 5 children.

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