Terence Adda-Balinia is a results-oriented, development, population and public health professional with over fifteen years of experience in research, program and project management in Ghana and other West African countries. His areas of expertise cover mixed method research, implementation science, coordinating multi-partner research projects, maternal new-born and child health, family planning, maternal and child nutrition, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, migration and refugees, health systems strengthening, community health, school drop-outs, rural development, policy analysis, stakeholders’ engagement, monitoring & evaluation, grant application and management, donor relations and partnership building, training and capacity building. 

In terms of impact, he significantly contributed to Ghana’s family planning and midwifery task-sharing initiatives at the Population Council that resulted in programmatic and policy reforms in Ghana. He contributed to the inclusion of family planning onto the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana, he conducted the Situational Analysis Study on the Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan for Ghana’s 2030 Family Planning agenda. He served as the Country Research Manager for Oxford Policy Management under the Thrive Project, Additionally, as the In-Country Research Consultant for ICF, he directed research activities for Feed the Future Project in Ghana under the USAID-funded Survey for Monitoring and Resilience in Food Security.