Announcing GAND’s Election Committee, 2024

The 2023 Annual General Meeting appoints 3 persons to manage the electioneering proves of the 2024 election year of the Ghana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (GAND).The 2024 elections committee is chaired by Dr Michael Wiafe. Other members of the committee include Ms Joana Yinpaab Duubon and Ms Manyaya Suleman. The mandate of the Election Committee, 2024, as stipulated by the GAND constitution (Article 9) include: 9.1 Election of officers For more information, read Article 9 of the constitution.As a background, GAND operates a 3-year tenure for its Governing Board membership. Since the inception of GAND in 2019, year 2024 election year will be the second electioneering year after the current Governing Board was unanimously affirmed in 2021 following a successful inauguration in 2019.

The Annual General Meeting of the Ghana Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (GAND or The Academy) on Friday October 20, 2023 elected and inducted into office the final member of the Governing Board: The Zonal Representative – a position that has been vacant since the 2021 – 2023 tenure began.Mrs Felicia Danso, the elected Zonal Representative and our newest member of the Governing Board (GB), was unanimously nominated from among the different representative of the five zone of the Academy and fully endorsed by the AGM on Friday October 20, 2023 at the School of Business Auditorium of the KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. She was subsequently inducted into office by Mr Percival Agordoh, RD – the Vice President of GAND (who also facilitated the nomination and approval process). This makes her the first ever individual to assume this prestigious role which has the sole responsibility of ensuring the effective organization, operation and representation of the decentralized structures of the GAND infrastructure. Before her nomination, Mrs Danso was (and still is) a focal executive member of the Northern Zone of the Academy. She is a credentialled registered nutritionist and a founding member of the Academy.