Biography

Dr. Yvonne Ayerki Nartey is a specialist physician in internal medicine at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in Cape Coast, Ghana. She completed her medical degree at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) School of Medical Sciences in 2013. She holds an MPhil in Microbiology and Immunology from UCC and an MSc in Internal Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, where she was awarded the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Turner Scholarship in 2016.

Dr. Nartey earned her PhD in Medical Epidemiology from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2022. She later completed the Hepatitis Elimination Research & Outreach (HERO) Fellowship with the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination in 2024, followed by the Stanford African Scholars in Global Health program at Stanford University. She is currently pursuing gastroenterology and hepatology sub-specialty training with the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Nartey works closely with Ghana’s National Viral Hepatitis Control Program and played a key role in the implementation of the STOP HEP C project, which links Ghanaian patients with hepatitis C to free antiviral treatment. Her ongoing research includes operational studies on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B and epidemiologic assessments of hepatitis B and C virus infection in Ghana.

Her broader research interests focus on the prevention, epidemiology, clinical management, and outcomes of viral hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma in Ghana.