Victor Asare Bampoe is a

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physician, public health specialist and a former deputy

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Early life and education

Bampoe was born in 1967. He had his secondary school education, both GCE Ordinary and

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certificate in

Achimota School Achimota School ( /ɑːtʃimoʊtɑː/ ), formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school wa ...

in Ghana from 1979 to 1986. He proceeded to the

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Medical School where he graduated with a BSc in human biology, medicine and surgery in 1995 and was trained as a

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. Afterwards he completed post-graduate study for a

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at the

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in Baltimore, Maryland, US, in 1999.

Career

Bampoe served as the senior fund portfolio manager at the

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based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Politics

In June 2014, Bampoe was nominated by President

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to serve as the deputy Minister of Health. He was vetted on 10 July 2014 and sworn in on 22 July 2014. He served in that role from 2014 to 2017.

References

Living people Ghanaian healthcare managers National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians 1967 births Ghanaian public health doctors Alumni of Achimota School University of Ghana Medical School alumni Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni {{Ghana-politician-stub