Agnes Agyepong is the founder and CEO of Global Black Maternal Health, an organisation committed to placing research and agency back into the hands of Black communities as leaders and change agents in their own health narratives.
As a maternal health advocate in the UK and former Head of Engagement at a national charity, Agnes has published articles and spoken extensively about the need for maternal health research to become more diverse and inclusive.
As a key speaker her credits include the British Medical Association, The Royal College of Midwifery, Royal Society of Medicine, NHS and the Westminster Health Forum. She is also a named author on the ‘Babies in Lockdown Report’ and supported the UK government on the flagship ‘Early Years Healthy Development Review’, a review into improving health and development outcomes for babies in England. Her work has been published by the World Health Organisation and her article “Why bias is key to stopping institutional and structural racism in healthcare and research” made it to the front page of international nursing journal Nurse Researcher.
In 2018, she founded The GLOMAMA Awards, a prestigious annual awards celebrating the achievements of mothers on social media, which encourages mothers to rediscover their “Glow” after pregnancy, and on the back of this success she cofounded The Fatherhood Awards in 2022. She sits on the NIHR ARC Maternity and Perinatal Mental Health PPI strategy committee, is a founding member of the Maternity Mental Health SEL steering group and a Patient and Public Voice PPV Partner for the Maternity Transformation Programme in the UK.
