Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey is the current Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI), Africa Region. Before assuming this role, he was the Senior Technical Director for the Institute. In this role, he led Ghana’s Project Fives Alive! to deliver large scale quality improvement projects in over 80% of public sector hospitals and 30% of Ghanaian sub-districts, contributing to a 34% reduction in facility-based child deaths. He also served as the Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association.

A public health physician par excellence, Quality Improvement Advisor and a Fellow of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey has years of clinical and management experiences in frontline district medical practice. He has conducted series of high-level training and short-term consultancies in Saudi Arabia, India, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria and in the United States with diverse organizations like the World Health Organization, Care India, Centre for Integrated Health Programmes, Nigeria, Kind Saud Medical City, Saudi Arabia.

With significant high-level engagements within Ministries of Health in Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia and Malawi, he served on the Governing Board of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and the Governing Council of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) between 2012 - 2016. He is also a member of Ghana’s National Newborn Sub Committee and has previously worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator of the National Catholic Health Service, guiding the finalization of the NCHS’s Whole Systems Transformation strategy.

Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey is a notable advocate for social justice in bridging equity gaps in mental healthcare. He is also an active sociopolitical commentator who frequently writes articulate opinion pieces in Ghana's leading newspapers. He is a proud recipient of the Ghana Medical Association's Special Commendation Award for meritorious service to the medical profession in Ghana.