Congratulations go to inspiring chemist and RSM Fellow Dr Sylvia Anie, who is one of five West African role models celebrated by Ghanaian media to mark the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Dr Anie is a senior global health research manager at the National Institute for Health Research in the UK and has served as director of the gender, health and education sections at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
In 2015, she was selected and honoured as an African Science Hero and had the opportunity of addressing the UN General Assembly, New York in 2011 on HIV and Health.
Dr Anie is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemists and now works as a global consultant in sustainable human development focusing particularly on marginalised and vulnerable groups.