Demi Priscilla Letsa, Dr.
Dr Demi Priscilla Letsa is a Ghanaian global health professional, author, and founder of Legacy 28 Press. With over 18 years of experience in health systems strengthening, program design, and strategic leadership, she has led multimillion-dollar USAID-funded initiatives in Ghana, the United States and Haiti focusing advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights, improving access to quality care for women and adolescents, and shaping health systems that respond to the needs of vulnerable populations.
Over the past decade, Dr Demi has led and contributed to cutting edge research, national policy dialogues, and global health initiatives across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
Dr Demi has worked with institutions such as the Population Council, Total Family Health Organization, USAID, GIZ, KOICA, UNFPA, the World Bank, to name a few, providing technical leadership, driving advocacy and mentoring the next generation of public health professionals. Her career spans pivotal leadership roles where she built and managed teams, advised national ministries of health, and advanced gender equity and sustainability across health programs.
A trained scientist, Demi holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of Ghana, a Masters degree in Global Health and Policy from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Microbiology and Immunology from the California State University, Sacramento.
She has held Visiting Scholar Faculty positions at Penn State University School of Medicine and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, both in the United States of America. Presently she is adjunct faculty at the University of Ghana School of Public Health and the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene where she practicalizes principles of global health for Masters students.
In 2020, after a season of personal and professional transformation, Demi embraced her lifelong love of storytelling and began her creative writing journey. As we all know, her debut novel, The 28th February House —a sweeping historical fiction rooted in Ghana’s colonial legacy. She launched her imprint, Legacy 28 Press, to spotlight African stories that interrogate our identity, and the complexity of belonging.
Demi is a passionate advocate for equity and a gender-balanced Ghana. When she isn’t busy with all these amazing things, Dr Demi can be found reading, correcting someone’s English, drinking coffee or dreaming up lavish vacations she is yet to take.