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Two channels.
One signal.
The first signal I ever learned to read wasn't on a teleprompter. It was a band of
haemoglobin migrating across a gel — the difference, sometimes, between a child
diagnosed in time and one diagnosed too late.
I trained as a biomedical scientist and still practise as a clinical scientist at the Ghana Armed Forces Critical Care & Emergency Hospital. But I kept noticing the same thing in the lab: the most important science rarely reached the people it was actually about.
So I learned a second language — broadcast — and carried the evidence to where the audience really is. Today I anchor and produce for JoyNews Prime, lead communications for the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital programme in Ghana, and report on the science shaping African lives.
The work is always the same translation: read the evidence carefully, then tell the story straight. Numbers into narrative. Diagnosis into understanding.
Channel 01 — Evidence
The scientist
Bench-trained in medical laboratory science. I read the data before I report it.
Channel 02 — Narrative
The journalist
Anchor, producer and documentary maker translating science for a national audience.
Channel 03 — Impact
The advocate
Health screenings, patient fundraising and development communications that move people to act.
