Built around physicians Designed to transform how care is delivered.
WAHP started with a simple observation: West Africa does not lack talented physicians. It lacks the infrastructure for them to practice well. We are a team of physicians and operators who saw this gap firsthand and decided to close it.
Why we Started WAHP.
Some of the most meaningful things we build in life start with shared experience, shared values, and shared vision.
My cofounder, Emmanuel Adomfeh, and I trained together during internal medicine residency, and over the years our friendship has grown into a mission.
For the past five years, we have traveled to West Africa, particularly Ghana, multiple times. Each trip made the same realities impossible to ignore: a fragmented healthcare system, ongoing brain drain, and limited access to affordable, reliable diagnostics.
Rather than just talk about the problem, we decided to build.
That is what led to the creation of West African Health Partners. We are working to build infrastructure that helps physicians practice sustainably and helps patients access the care and diagnostics they need more easily and affordably.
To me, this is also part of a bigger story. It is about a new generation of young diaspora leaders choosing not only to stay connected to the motherland, but to help build it.
We may have trained abroad, but we carry with us a responsibility to contribute, collaborate, and create solutions that matter back home.
Grateful for the friendship, the shared purpose, and the journey ahead.
Jonathan Francois, MD
Co-founder & CEO, West African Health Partners
Where practicing in West Africa is a career advantage not a sacrifice.
WAHP's vision is a West Africa where physicians do not have to choose between staying home and practicing well. Where a doctor in Accra has access to the same quality of diagnostics, imaging, and operational infrastructure as a doctor in Atlanta.
Phase 1 launches in Accra with the first integrated hub. Future phases are designed to expand the model into additional Ghanaian markets and, over time, across West Africa. Each hub follows the same model, validates it further, and helps accelerate the next.
Long term, WAHP is building a regional healthcare infrastructure network — the operating system for independent physician practice across the region.
Operating principles, not marketing slogans.
These are not aspirational statements on a wall. They are the operating
principlesthat shape how WAHP builds, hires, and makes decisions.
Physician-First Design
Every decision starts with the question: does this make the physician's practice better? If the answer is no, we do not build it. The platform exists to serve physicians, not the other way around.
Integration Over Isolation
Fragmented healthcare is the problem. Every system we build, every partnership we form, every tool we adopt must connect to the whole. Standalone solutions are not solutions at all.
Build to Replicate
Accra is not the destination. Every system, process, and operational decision is designed to work in the next city and the one after that. Scalability is a present constraint on every choice we make.
Radical Transparency
With physicians, with investors, with partners. We share the data, the challenges, and the progress honestly. Trust is the foundation of every relationship in healthcare. We earn it through transparency.
To create an environment where West African physicians have the tools, technology, and support to practice at their highest level.
WAHP exists to strengthen independent medical practice by bringing clinical space, diagnostics, technology, and practice support into one connected environment. We are starting in Ghana with a model designed to grow across West Africa.