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Eunice Brookman-Amissah, MB.ChB, FWAPC, FRCOG, is Ipas’s Vice President for Africa. Dr. Brookman-Amissah assumed leadership of Ipas’s Africa program in June 2001. Before accepting the full-time Vice President for Africa position at Ipas, she served for three years as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Netherlands. From 1996 to 1998, she served as Ghana’s Minister of Health, during which time she introduced health-care reform and comprehensive reproductive health services. These appointments came after a long clinical medicine career spanning both the public and private sectors in the United Kingdom and Ghana. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of England and Fellow ad eundum of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. As Ipas country representative for Ghana from 1994 to 1996, Dr. Brookman-Amissah directed an innovative and highly successful operations-research program, training midwives to deliver postabortion care. During her distinguished career, Dr. Brookman-Amissah was the first woman Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association (1992-1995) and has been the Commonwealth Medical Association’s representative to the Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative since 2002. She is also a member of the Committee on Women and Development of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Africa. In 2004, she received representational status at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa.