Director
Munah Tarpeh is a result-oriented Public Health Expert with over 10 years demonstrated progressive hands on experience in health and nutrition programming, senior healthcare leadership, management, Reproductive Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) and Health Systems Strengthening in low- and middle-income settings, research and academia. She has vast experience with government, UN, academia, NGOs, and Civil Society Organizations. She graduated from the Royal Tropical Institute in the Netherlands with Masters of Public Health. She completed a course in Administration from Indiana University. Her undergraduate degree is from Cuttington University College in Liberia (Bachelor of Nursing).
Over the years, she has worked in humanitarian, development and recovery contexts. She has excellent report writing skills and competencies, with several publications in the area of maternal health and health work force. Munah has excellent communication skills, a team builder, respect for diversity, transparency, accountability and gender sensitivity.
During her tenure at a Government facility, the John F. Kenney Memorial Medical Center (469 bed hospital with 1,485 employees), Liberia’s primary teaching, tertiary and referral health care facility, she planned, implemented, coordinated, supervised and monitored overall service delivery and operations. In this hospital, she worked with and supervised Ministry of Health (MOH), UN and Non-Governmental Organizations including NGOs from United States, Germany, Japan, India, Netherlands and China, which partnered with the hospital to provide patient care, leadership, infrastructure development, program planning and development.
Munah is passionate on the improvement of maternal and child health care through planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation including use of data for evidence based decision making.
Munah has imparted knowledge, skills and core competencies to many health profession workforce through mentoring and coaching to nursing, midwifery and physician assistant students. She is currently serving as a program manager for the EYELLIANCE work being implemented in Liberia.
