JOHN K GANLE
University Of Ghana
jganle@ug.edu.gh
John Ganle is a lecturer in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana. He received his doctoral training in Public Health from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. His research interests are mainly in maternal and child health; abortion and contraceptive behaviour; gender and health; and the intersection between disability, sexuality and reproductive health.
He is a recipient of a number of internationally and locally competitive research grants and fellowships, includinga one-year Radcliff Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. He has also been a consultant on a number of maternal and child health projects in Ghana, including the Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (R3M) programme; and The Hunger Project’s (Ghana) Maternal and Child Healthcare Improvement Project (Phase II). He is also an academic editor for PLOS ONE Journal, and a member of the Global Young Academy.
1. Ganle KJ, Tiwaa Busia TN, Baatiema B (2019). Stocking and over-the-counter sale of misoprostol for medical abortion in Ghana’s community pharmacies: comparison of questionnaire and mystery client survey. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, doi: 10.1111/ijpp.12593.
2. Ganle JK, Amoako D, Baatiema L & Ibrahim M (2019). Risky sexual behaviour and contraceptive use in contexts of displacement: insights from a cross-sectional survey of female adolescent refugees in Ghana. International Journal for Equity in Health 18:127; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1031-1.
3. Ganle JK, Mahama SM, Maya E, Manu A, Torpey K & Adanu R (2019). Understanding factors influencing home delivery in the context of user‐fee abolition in Northern Ghana: Evidence from 2014 DHS. International Journal of Health Planning & Management, 2019;1–17.
4. Ganle JK, Busia TN & Maya E (2018). Availability and prescription of misoprostol for medical abortion in community pharmacies and associated factors in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.12717.
5. Ganle JK, Otupiri O, Obeng B, Edusie KA, Ankomah A & Adanu R (2016). Challenges women with disability face in accessing and using maternal healthcare services in Ghana. PLoS ONE, 11(6): e0158361. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0158361.
6.Ganle JK, Dery I & Manu (2016). ‘If I go with him, I can’t talk with other women’: understanding women’s resistance to men’s involvement in maternal and child healthcare in Northern Ghana. Social Science & Medicine, 166:195-204.
1. IUSSP Urban Family Planning Fellow (2020-2022)
2. Radcliffe Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2018-2019)
3. Iso Lomso Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2017-2019)
• My Role: PI
• Funding: The Royal Society/African Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowship Scheme (Approx. £298,459)
• Duration: 2Years (04/2020-03/2022).
2 Identifying and developing low-cost and acceptable family planning interventions and service delivery models for urban slums in Ghana. The goal of this project is to identify low-cost and acceptable interventions/models for delivering quality family planning and contraceptive services to slum dwellers in Accra, Ghana.
• My Role: PI
• Funding: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) (US$47,273)
• Duration: 2Years (02/2020-03/2022).
3 Developing Best Practices in Community engagement for Genomics and Biobanking in Africa: https://h3africa.org/index.php/developing-best-practices-of-community-engagement-for-genomics-and-biobanking-in-africa-cebiogen/. The goal of this project is to build a systematic evidence base for effective community engagement for genomics and biobanking in Africa from the recruitment stage to feedback of findings.
• PIs: Dr. Anita Ghansah & Dr. Paulina Tindana
• My Role: Co-Investigator
• Funding: NIH (award number:1U54HG010275-01; US$1.7million)
• Duration: 4Years (2018-2021)
4 Trust in medicine after the EVD epidemic: Street-level health bureaucrats, the institutionalization of care, and the creation of preparedness in Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Ghana (http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/299295161). The goals of this project are to investigate how and to what extent trust is built in health service delivery, and examine how trust relations have been shaped by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, how trust is being (re)built in health service delivery after the EVD epidemic, and to what extent trust forms the social basis for epidemic preparedness.
• PI: Professor Dr. Ulrike Beisel (Germany)
• My Role: Ghana PI
• Co-PIs: Dr. Sung-Joon Park (Germany), Dr. Sylvanus Spencer (Sierra Leone), Dr. Grace Akello-Ayebare (Uganda), and Esther Yei Mokuwa (Sierra Leone).
• Funding: German Research Foundation (Award numbers: BE 5682/4-1 & PA 2647/2-1; €626,201)
• Duration: 36months (August 2016 - July 2019).
5 Disability and reproduction in Africa: developing the theoretical, methodological and evidence base for inclusive reproductive healthcare in Ghana. The goal of this project was to use ethnographic-style qualitative research methodology alongside quantitative survey to identify, describe and determine the sexual, reproductive and maternal healthcare needs, healthcare seeking behaviours, and challenges of women with disability in Ghana
• My Role: PI
• Funding: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa) (US$19,890).
• Duration: 3years (2017 - 2019).
6. Increasing Use of Modern Contraceptives and Skilled Delivery Services among Persons with Disability in the Northern Region of Ghana. The goal of this project was to design and implement a set of innovative health facility level and community level interventions to promote greater access to and use of modern contraceptives and skilled delivery services among persons with disabilities in three districts in Northern Region of Ghana.
• My Role: PI
• Co-Investigators: Professors Richard Adanu and Augustine Ankomah (UGSPH), and Dr. Ernest Tei Maya.
• Funding: USAID Systems for Health Innovation Grants (Award No.: FY16-CR08-6017; US$293,619)
• Duration: 12months (October 2016 - September 2017).
6.6 Microfinance, Poverty Reduction and Access to Maternal Healthcare Rural Women in Ghana and Kenya. The goal of this project was to examine the links between rural women’s access to microfinance and poverty reduction and maternal health outcomes in Ghana and Kenya.
• My Role: PI
• Co-Investigators: Professor Grace Wamue-Ngare (Kenyatta University), Dr. Alexander Segbefia (KNUST), Mr. Kwadwo Afriyie (KNUST) and Dr. Pauline Kamau (Kenyatta University).
• Funding: Association of African Universities (US$47,500)
• Duration: 18months (June 2015- September 2016).