Staff Team – CAHN

Meet the CAHN team

HEALTH & WELLBEING SERVICES TEAM

Head of Health & Wellbeing Services
Sakinat Baiyewu

Strategic Lead for Population Health
Fabiola Bayavuje

Counselling Service Manager
Rosalyn Magowan

Health & Wellbeing Development Manager
Peace Sunmonu

Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
June Green

Health & Wellbeing Officer (London)
Stephanie Toryima

Health & Wellbeing Assistant
Daniel Akanji

Community Health Worker
Bernice Kwaku-Odoi

Health & Wellbeing Development Worker
Mark Adusei

Infrastructure & Capacity Building Manager
Lesmond Taylor

Head of Health & Wellbeing Services

Sakinat Baiyewu

Strategic Lead for Population Health

Fabiola Bayavuje

Counselling Service Manager

Rosalyn Magowan

Health & Wellbeing Development Manager

Peace Sunmonu

Sunmonu Peace Temitope is a health and wellbeing development officer with the Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN).

She has a master’s degree qualification in Global Public Health at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK, and an essential experience in health care and development. She is passionate about health-related services and very keen about public health, research, and development. Peace is enthusiastic and committed to promoting health awareness and supporting people into health and wellbeing activities, ensuring that the healthy lifestyle of the Caribbeans and Africans within the UK are preserved.

She is currently engaged with the duty of planning, researching, and implementing a portfolio of health-related projects, programs, events, and activities with team members as well as codesigning and developing health care pathways with users and partners. Following the vision of CAHN, she looks forward to making a positive impact within the Caribbean and African community to eradicate health inequality and bring about good health and wellbeing in the UK through research and health promotion.

Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

June Green

June Green is currently working as a Health Liaison Officer at CAHN and retired from the NHS at the end of December 2021. June had been working as a Clinical Research Nurse Manager for over 15 years. She has been qualified as a Registered Nurse and Midwife for over 40 years and began working for CAHN since 2017 as a volunteer Nurse providing health screening in the community at churches and community events including the first Windrush celebration. Her passion is the health of her community and raising awareness of personal healthcare, helping the community to address the disproportionalities of healthcare and this role puts her in a prime position to do so, to provide the evidence to promote better health for the African Caribbean community.

Health & Wellbeing Officer (London)

Stephanie Toryima

Health & Wellbeing Assistant

Daniel Akanji

Daniel is one of our Digital Assistants at CAHN.

Daniel studied Civil Engineering at the University of Bolton and has been a Volunteer for World Harvest Christian Centre as a teaching assistant since 2018.

Daniel loves to help and be present for those in need.

Daniel would like to make CAHN more recognised locally and international so that more people can receive CAHN’S services.

Community Health Worker

Bernice Kwaku-Odoi

Health & Wellbeing Development Worker

Mark Adusei

Infrastructure & Capacity Building Manager

Lesmond Taylor

Leadership & Learning Academy

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT & ADVOCACY TEAM

Head of Community Empowerment and Advocacy
Sandy Koujou

Advocacy & Vulnerability Officer
Oluwasola Adesulu

Advocacy & Empowerment Officer
Christina Uko

Head of Community Empowerment and Advocacy

Sandy Koujou

Head of Community Empowerment and Advocacy Team

Sandy is passionate about activities that involve working with people, but more importantly, understanding these people regardless of their background. In her quest to create positive change, she is taking full advantage of her past experiences as a Corporate Consultant as well as a Public Speaker to empower individuals as well as victims of domestic and sexual violence. In doing so, she uses her linguistic skills (Certified UK translator French & Spanish) to break language barriers.

In her role as the Head of Community Engagement and Empowerment at CAHN, Sandy endeavours to work closely with community groups and statutory organisations to identify partnership opportunities in delivering CAHN’s mission to end health and social inequalities within a generation. She dedicates her time to create positive change and advocate for better social policies.

Email:sandy@cahn.org.uk

Number:sandy@cahn.org.uk

Trisha Adoba

Advocacy & Vulnerability Officer

Oluwasola Adesulu

Advocacy & Empowerment Officer

Christina Uko

Research & Innovation Team

Research Coordinator.

Albert Kwansa

Department is Research & Innovation

Community Research Officer

Miriam Ejim

Leadership & Learning Academy

Infrastructure & Capacity Building Manager

Lesmond Taylor

Leadership & Learning Academy

Strategy and Income Generation

Snr Business Development & Impact Manager
Stephen Nyamja

Public Relations Officer
Benedict Aristotle

Business & Partnerships Officer
Elise Meshioye

Business Support Assistant
Emmanuella Lartey

Implementation & Impact Manager
Hyelni Mibwala

Head of Strategy and Income

Percy Akudo

Snr Business Development & Impact Manager

Stephen Nyamja

Business Support Officer

Oiza Ibrahim

Public Relations Officer

Benedict Aristotle

Business & Partnerships Officer

Elise Meshioye

Strategy & Income Generation

Faith Liaison Officer

EMMANUEL AJOKOU

Emmanuel is the Lead Minister of the World Harvest Christian Centre Manchester branch. He is actively involved in several community projects within the black community. He has successfully spearheaded campaigns in the areas of employment such as the ‘Back to work’ program, youthwork (Clayton Youth Club). He has also helped establish a supplementary school that runs every Saturday to help educationally disadvantaged black children in high school within our local community. Emmanuel’s educational background is in Production and Project Management Technology. Emmanuel has 7years of experience in banking operations before joining the religious and voluntary sector. Emmanuel has joined the CAHN family as a project worker to help drive its community projects and campaigns.

Business Support Assistant

Emmanuella Lartey

Implementation & Impact Manager

Hyelni Mibwala

Finance Team

Finance & Risk Officer
Yussuf Annafi Amadu

Head of Finance

DANIEL BOAMAH

Finance & Risk Officer

Yussuf Annafi Amadu

CORPORATE DELIVERY & COMPLIANCE TEAM

Head of Corporate Delivery & Compliance
Sandra Yartey

Human Resources Manager
Annabel Benjamin

Events & Volunteer Officer
Stephen Abaimu

Events & Conference Manager
John Obiajunwa

Head of Corporate Delivery & Compliance

Sandra Yartey

Sandra is the Corporate Delivery and Compliance Manager at CAHN.

I coordinate the delivery of our programmes, projects and services. My role involves implementing, monitoring as well as developing continuous improvement strategies for all our programmes and projects. I also lead on compliance and assurance practices to ensure that we abide by policy and regulatory expectations.

Sandra has a passion to help people and enjoys using her skills to support community impact projects. These values and aspirations motivated her to join the team to promote CAHN’s vision, and empower and improve the lives of Caribbean and African people.

Outside of work, she enjoys cooking and travelling.

Human Resources Manager

Annabel Benjamin

Operations Manager

Hayford Tuffour

Hayford is the HR Systems Consultant at CAHN. Hayford has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Big Data Analytics. Managing HR systems gives him the opportunity to engage with staff on various levels within IT.

Hayford is looking forward to working with CAHN management to get the best from the HR system and providing a user-friendly interface for all staff members across CAHN.

Events & Volunteer Officer

Stephen Abaimu

HR Officer

Leona Adjei

Events & Conference Manager

John Obiajunwa

Communications & Marketing Team

Assistant Marketing and Media Manager
Samuel Okerenta

Communications Manager

Ruth Akinradewo

Marketing & Media Manager

Natacha Pires

Assistant Marketing and Media Manager

Samuel Okerenta

Samuel is our Assistant Marketing and Media Manager at CAHN. With an evident passion for all aspects of marketing and media. Samuel graduated from the University of Derby with his BSc in marketing with a specialization in the digital sphere. Having worked on the Nectar campaign with Sainsbury’s, Samuel’s marketing experiences has given him the avenue to apply his knowledge across all aspects of marketing and media by having an insight into the consumer mindset. This accumulated experience over the years brought him to CAHN and developed his passion for educating, empowering, and including the African and Caribbean communities which he looks forward to his impact at CAHN.

Marketing & Media Officer

Wise Adewumi

Events Team

Event Assistant

Millicent Osei Mensah

Events Coordinator

Adebimpe Dauda

Adebimpe Dauda is the Business Support Officer / Rochdale Community lead & Communications Support for CAHN. A graduate of Liverpool John Moore University with 8years experiences in customer service in the retail industry.Adebimpe started with CAHN as a volunteer before becoming a staff member, as the Rochdale community lead, she supports the black groups and organisations in Rochdale and works closely with the community engagement manager and the communication officer. She also creates and designs various content for CAHN social media platforms. She looks forward to continuing promoting CAHN’s vision and mission as well as creating outstanding graphics for CAHN social media campaigns.

Graphic Designer