Dr Mrs. Beth Offei-Awuku is a licensed medical practitioner with about twenty-four years post-qualification experience in clinical practice and health leadership. She has vast knowledge, skills, and abilities in General Practice, Critical Care, Anaesthesia, Public Health, and Human Resource Management. She has contributed to building resilient teams and strong physical structures in all hospitals she has worked in.
Early in her career, she founded the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the then Central Regional Hospital (now Cape Coast Teaching Hospital) in 2003 and worked tirelessly as the doctor in charge of the NICU. She contributed immensely to the success of the Non-Communicable Diseases clinics of the then Central Regional Hospital (Interberton), and after her training in Critical Care and Anaesthesia, she led the CRH Anaesthesia team from 2004 to 2008.
She moved to join the University of Cape Coast Hospital as a Senior Medical Officer ( Anaesthesia Specialist) in 2008, where she led the Critical Care services of the University Hospital until in 2014 when she took up an appointment with the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Health Services as Deputy Director Health services (2014 - 2024), and Acting Director, Health Services (2015 - 2022). Under her leadership, the UEW dream for a new Internally funded University Hospital was reviewed, redesigned, and built from scratch to about 90 percent completion before she relocated to rejoin the UCC Hospital in 2024 where she currently works.
Beth has also contributed to research and teaching in the universities she worked with, holding part-time teaching appointments with the UCC School of Medical Sciences (2012 - 2016, 2024 till date), UEW Department of Health Administration (2017 - 2022), and the UEW Department of Early Childhood Education (2018 - 2021), teaching courses in Basic Health Sciences, and Anaesthesia and Critical Care as per offers.
She holds BSc in Human Biology (KNUST - 1998); MBChB (KNUST - 2001); Diploma in Anaesthesia (West African College of Surgeons - 2004); and Master of Public Health (UG - 2018)
She has led several professional bodies in different capacities from the local to the national level. She was the Treasurer of the Central Regional Branch of the Ghana Medical Association(GMA) from 2007 - 2014; UEW Local President of the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA - UEW) from 2020 - 2024; Member of the Governing Council of UEW 2019 - 2021; National president of GAUA 2022 - 2024.
Her hobbies include hosting guests, singing and dancing, and reading Christian literature as well as fiction. Dr Mrs. Beth Offei-Awuku is a Christian; married to Rev. Nana Yaw Offei Awuku, Global Director - Generations of Lausanne Movement USA, and they have three biological progeny - Christie-Joy Offei-Awuku, Ebenezer-Joy Offei Awuku, and Laura-Joy Offei-Awuku.