Ayaga A. Bawah
University of Ghana
aabawah@gmail.com
Ayaga A. Bawah is Associate Professor, and Director, Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, and Research Affiliate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. He has expertise in population and health research in Africa, particularly in research methodology, longitudinal data analysis and modeling of demographic processes, and evaluation of health interventions including maternal and child health. Prior to joining University of Ghana, he was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, New York. He previously worked with the INDEPTH Network and the Navrongo Health Research Centre, both in Ghana. He is a member of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority’s Technical Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials (TAC-CT) and the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Data and Biospecimen Access Committee. He is a member of professional population associations such as the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), and the Population Association of America (PAA). He holds Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Population Studies and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed published articles in several journals of…
Bawah, A. A., Kyei, P. S., & Agyei-Asabere, C. (2024). Contraceptive use and method mix dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: time trends and the influence of the HIV pandemic. Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 9 (1), 1-16.
MacTavish R., Bixby H., Cavanaugh A., Agyei-Mensah S, Bawah, A., Owusu G, Ezzati M, Arku R, Robinson B., A.M., Baumgartner J. (2023). Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data, World Development, Volume 167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.
Bawah, A.A., Sato, R., Asuming, P. et al. (2021). Contraceptive method use, discontinuation and failure rates among women aged 15–49 years: evidence from selected low income settings in Kumasi, Ghana. Contraception and Reproductive Medicine 6, 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40834-021-00151-y
Bawah, A.A., Awoonor-Williams, J.K., Asuming, P.O., Jackson, E.F., Boyer, C.B., Kanmiki, E.W., et al. (2019). The child survival impact of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program: A health systems strengthening plausibility trial in Northern Ghana. PloS ONE 14(6): e0218025. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218025
Bawah, A.A,, Phillips, J.F., Walega, P., Wak, G., Asuming, .P and Oduro, A.R. (2019). Does the provision of Community Health Services Offset the Effect of Poverty and Low Maternal Educational Attainment on Childhood Mortality? Evidence from the Navrongo Experiment in Northern Ghana.” SS Population Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.100335
Bawah, A.A., Asuming, P., Debpuur, C. & Phillips, J.F. (2016). Child Wanted and When? Fertility Intentions, Wantedness and Child Survival in Rural Northern Ghana: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveillance Data. Studies in Family Planning, Volume 47 (3): 252–263(DOI: 10.1111/sifp.67)
Bawah, A.A., Houle, B., Alam, N., Razzaque, A., Streatfield, P.K., Debpuur, C., et al. (2016). The Evolving Demographic and Health Transition in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Four Sites in the INDEPTH Network of Longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0157281. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157281
Member, Family Planning Impact Consortium (FP Impact) Technical Advisory Group (TAG), The Guttmacher Institute, New York (Dec 2023 till date)
Member, Committee on Population of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) (09/2022-03/2024)
Member, Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Data and Biospecimen Access (Aug 2023 till date)
Member (Social Scientist), Technical Advisory Committee, Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana (Sept 2016-Dec 2024)
Board Member, Tamale Teaching Hospital Governing Board, Tamale, Ghana (June 2015-Jan 2017)
Committee Member Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa (2010-2013), United States Academy of Science (NAS) Link to report of committee (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13533). (2010-2013)
Editorial Board Member, African Population Studies, Editorial Advisory Committee (2010-2012)
Member, Population Association of America (PAA), Since 1999
Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) (Since 2001)
Member, Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) (Since 2000)
Grant title: “Africa Health Initiative Community of Practice”. Bring together participants in the Doris Duke Foundation Africa Health Initiative Health Systems Strengthening": Funded by Doris Duke Foundation. Grant #: 2023-0264 Grant amount: $2,500,000: duration: 2024-2027
Grant title: “A National Program for Strengthening the Implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative in Ghana: CHPS+”. This goal of this project is to scale-up a successful health system: Funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Grant #2016107. Grant amount $1,658,491.20: duration: 2016-2022
Grant title: “Implementation and impact evaluation of the Willows’ Reproductive Health Programs in Ghana.” The overall goal of the programme is to conduct evaluation surveys and analysis that can be used to inform future programmatic decision-making both for the Warren Buffet Foundation and Willows International. Funded by Warren Buffet Foundation. Grant amount $1,621,559.39: duration: 2017-2020
Grant title: “Developing Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS) Project.” Funded by United States Agency for International Development. Grant amount 2018-2022 ($888,792.00): duration: 2018-2022
Grant title: “A prospective, comparative study of clinical outcomes following clinic-based versus self-use of medical abortion using mifepristone with misoprostol.”Funded by Ipas International, USA. Grant amount $274,749.88: duration: 2019-2020