Dr. Andrews Ayim is the Deputy Director Policy at the PPMED of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and a Public Health Specialist whose job entails ensuring the development of GHS Strategic policies and plans to contribute to the development of national health policies He is also  a training coordinator at Faculty of Public Health in the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS) in Accra where he facilitates the training of the Health Policy and Systems course. His research interest is in decentralization, concepts of power and decision space in the implementation of policies.