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Carrie Adu-Addo is a Ghanaian pharmacist with over three years of experience in community and hospital pharmacy, currently pursuing an MSc in International Public Health. She has a strong background in patient counseling, healthcare program management, and public health research, with notable roles in various pharmacies and hospitals. Her skills include data analysis, critical thinking, and effective communication, complemented by her involvement in community outreach and educational initiatives.

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Carrie Adu-Addo is a Ghanaian pharmacist with over three years of experience in community and hospital pharmacy, currently pursuing an MSc in International Public Health. She has a strong background in patient counseling, healthcare program management, and public health research, with notable roles in various pharmacies and hospitals. Her skills include data analysis, critical thinking, and effective communication, complemented by her involvement in community outreach and educational initiatives.

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CARRIE ADU-ADDO

carrieaddo202@gmail.com | (+233) 546632304, Sowutuom, Ghana


Nationality: Ghanaian. Gender: Female

PROFILE
Pharmacist with 3+ years of community and hospital pharmacy practice and public health related
research. Highly proficient in patient counseling, preparing reports, extemporaneous preparation and
research methods. With a great interest in research and experimentation, experience acquired spans over
industrial pharmacy practice, as well as regulatory firms. Has excellent communication skills and is able
to work effectively on a team.

EDUCATION
Year Institution and Certificates

Ongoing-May 2025 Msc International Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Sept 2015 – May 2019 BSc. Pharmacy, Central University, Accra, Ghana.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pharmacist, Mawuena Pharmacy October 2023-Present

● Handle procurement of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics


● Education and training of interns
● Lead community health outreaches
● Handling of sales marketing and management of new products
● Create SOPs for management of drug expiries
● In charge of making reports for drug-drug and drug-patient interactions and adverse reactions

Pharmacist, McCarthy Hill Pharmacy December 2020 – December 2023

• Managed and designed long-term healthcare program for 20+ geriatric patients
• Organized educational programs called for the diabetic and hypertensive patients where they were
trained on how to properly manage their health and ultimately increase their life expectancy.
• Supported the development and training skills of more than six interns in community pharmacy
practice and prepared them for their licensing exams.
• Led the development of outreach and marketing strategy which has led to an increased daily sales by
50% within a period of one year
• Led the training of interns and sales managers of McCarthy Hill Pharmacy on key supply best practices.
• Developed and rolled out strategies and measures such as first-in-first-out (FIFO) and First-to-Expire
First-Out (FEFO) to reduce the rate of drugs expirations in the pharmacy and to prevent expired drugs
served to patients.
• Led field monitoring visits to field sites to provide technical support and counseling services to patients,
community members.
• Led data collecting process to meet the project and firm’s monitoring, evaluation and learning needs.
• Management of the reporting needs of the firm including weekly, monthly and annual reports

PHARMACIST, Greater Accra Regional Hospital, GARH August 2019-December 2020

• Carried out extemporaneous preparation of drugs such as folic acid and other suspensions.

• Worked with public health officers to carry out monitoring and surveillance for covid-19 cases and its
associated deaths.

• Shadowed the clinical pharmacist in carrying out research on the effectiveness of zinc and vitamin D in
alleviating symptoms of COVID-19
• Carried out patient counseling and drug dispensing to the population in key areas in the Greater Accra
region.
• Worked with the antiretroviral department to carry out educational programs for HIV/AIDS patients on
the use of barrier contraception.
• Worked with other pharmacists to carry out a local manufacture of hand sanitizers using alcohol, carbomer
and glycerin for the staff of the hospital.
• Supported the design and training of community volunteers, staff of hospitals on the major disease
prevention protocols
• Carried out monitoring visits to assess the adoption of prevention measures disseminated to
communities.
• Developed weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for management decision making

Intern Pharmacist, PHARMACY COUNCIL June 2019-August 2019


• Worked with other inspecting pharmacists to carry out training programs for over-the-counter-medicine
sellers on the treatment of malaria, flu and common cough.
• Shadowed an inspecting pharmacist to conduct exams and interview over-the-counter-medicine
sellers.
• Carried out routine inspections of community and hospital pharmacies

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
• Assessed the awareness and prevalence of abuse of emergency contraceptives among the females of
reproductive age in Ningo-May 2019, undergraduate project work
• Volunteered on an outreach program to educate members of Ningo, a suburb of Tema in Ghana, on
antibiotic resistance and its impact on human health -June 2019
• Co-created a non-profit organization that supports girl child education and organized a back to school
kit distribution -2020
• Distributed food and sanitary towels to street hawking girls of reproductive age. –December 2022

SKILLS
Microsoft office Suite (MS word, excel, PowerPoint)
Data analysis
Critical thinking
English proficiency
Research

REFEREES
Mr Raymond Tetteh-Department of clinical Pharmacy, Central University,
rniitetteh@gmail.com, +233 24 427 9857

Mr. Yunus Abdulai, Country Lead, DAI Global, USAID-Supported Feed the Future Ghana Policy LINK
Activity
yunusjonna@yahoo.co.uk or Yunus_abdulai@dai.com +233 200 463 477

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