Patricia Akweongo is an Associate Professor and Head of Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, School of Public Health University of Ghana. Patricia has over 24 years of research expertise in health systems and policy development and advocacy, social protection schemes for the vulnerable, maternal and child health, gender violence, human resource management and use of data for evidence decision making. Patricia is currently working on research addressing Health systems governance for an inclusive and sustainable social health protection scheme in Ghana and Tanzania, evidence for better lives researching into violence in pregnancy and early childhood in 15 countries, the performance of district health management teams in decentralized health systems in Ghana, Uganda and Malawi and making health insurance responsive to needs of citizens and addressing resilience of health systems in the wake of Covid-19 using routine health system data.