Dzifa Dellor, MBChB
Psychiatrist
We need culturally sensitive, community-led approaches that unite clinicians, researchers, and legislators to close the brain health gap in resource-limited settings.
Current Work
Dzifa is a psychiatrist and head of the Department of Mental Health and Wellness at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC). She leads the Sub-Saharan African Brain Health Initiative in Ghana and brings expertise in neuropsychiatric care and community-centered health advocacy.
Personal Hero
My Parents
Words of Strength
Everything is possible with God
Vision
Dzifa believes we need culturally sensitive, community-led approaches that unite clinicians, researchers, and legislators to close the brain health gap in resource-limited settings, ensuring dementia care reaches everyone, not just those in well-resourced systems.
Strategy
Dzifa is developing dementia screening, care and referral pathways for community-dwelling elderly in Ghana, using low literacy tools like the MoCA and GDS-15, while leading mental health education and stigma-reduction efforts across her institution.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Dzifa aims to strengthen dementia knowledge, research infrastructure and policy in Ghana and to expand early detection and caregiver support systems that can be scaled across sub-Saharan Africa.
Motivation
Ghana faces rising dementia prevalence with limited specialist capacity, low public awareness, stigma, and few validated low-literacy diagnostic tools. She addresses this through clinical work, research, and advocacy.
Education & Experience
Dr. Dzifa Dellor is a psychiatrist and head of the Department of Mental Health and Wellness at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in Accra. She holds a BSc and MBChB from the University of Ghana and is a member of the West African College of Physicians (MWACP) and the Ghana College of Physicians in Psychiatry (MGCP). She has also completed additional training with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in child and adolescent, forensic, old age, addiction, and adult psychiatry.
She serves as Ghana country lead for the Sub-Saharan African Brain Health Initiative and is a member of Alzheimer’s Ghana and the Rapha Global Initiative.
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