Enabling Sustainable Healthcare Innovation across
Africa

Frederick Sowah is a global health strategist building sustainable and scalable healthcare solutions across Africa, where he grew up.

Africa’s healthcare challenges are well documented. What is less discussed is the opportunity — to build agile, sustainable health systems that learn from the West’s mistakes rather than inherit them.  

I grew up in Ghana, where I witnessed how decades of underinvestment in healthcare led to avoidable deaths among family members and friends. That experience, combined with a decade leading health technology programs across the US healthcare system, shapes how I approach this mission.  

My focus is threefold: 

• Defining Africa’s highest priority healthcare challenges  

• Identifying scalable, investment-led solutions  

• Partnering with innovators and stakeholders to deliver them  

Africa has the youngest population in the world. The innovation capacity is there. What is needed now is smarter capital, suitable technology, and stronger collaboration.

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About Me

I spent a decade in senior leadership roles spanning finance, strategy, operations, and technology across a US Fortune 15 healthcare company. My prior experience includes emerging market investment analysis in sub-Saharan Africa and a private equity role at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank Group.

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Education

• BA (Chemistry), Yale University

• MBA (Finance), Duke University Fuqua School of Business

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Interests

• Advancing investment-led healthcare solutions across Africa

• Traveling to and learning about healthcare systems around the world (over 60 countries visited)

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Join me in my mission!