Dr. Genevieve Cecilia N. O. Aryeetey
Senior Lecturer
Education and Qualification
August 2012 PhD (Medical Sciences) Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen Netherlands.
Dissertation Title: Targeting the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme and benefits of enrolment
Supervisors: Rob Baltussen and Irene Agyepong
Award: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO-WOTRO
June 2006 MA (International Development) International University of Japan, Niigata Japan
Thesis title: Conflict and Poverty: Empirical evidence from selected Lower and Middle Income Countries
Award: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Long Term Training Program (LTP) fellowship
August 2004 Diploma (Statistics) University of Ghana, Legon Ghana
May 2003 BA (Economics with Geography and Resource Development) University of Ghana Legon
Working Experience
Feb 2016 to date Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Jan 2013 to Jan 2016 Lecturer, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
May 2008-Aug 2012 Research Fellow, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center, Netherlands
Oct. 2006-May 2008 Principal Research Assistant, Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon Ghana.
Sept. 2004-Aug 2005 Research Assistant, ISSER, University of Ghana, Legon Ghana
Grant reviewer
MRC Grant (2018)-Study titled “Preventive azithromycin therapy for malnourished children following discharge from health facilities in Senegal and The Gambia
Visiting lecturer
University of the Gambia (UTG)
External examiner of thesis (Masters and PhD):
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)
University of Health and Allied Sciences (Ghana)
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA-GHANA)
Conferences attended
March 2019: African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) conference in Ghana
Program Coordinator:
MSc Public Health Monitoring and Evaluation commencing in the 2018/2019 academic year
Courses taught
Under graduate:
Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Programs
Post Graduate
PHD: Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programs
MPH: Advanced Health Policy
MSc Public Health M&E: Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Programs; Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Systems
Publications
- Ogbuoji O, Mao W, Aryeetey G. The long-term impact of COVID-19 on development assistance for health is still uncertain. Lancet. 2021 Sep 22:S0140-6736(21)01448-3. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01448-3.
- Augustina Koduah, Justice Nonvignon, Abigail Colson, Amanj Kurdi, Alec Morton, Robert van der Meer, Genevieve Aryeetey, Itamar Megiddo, Health systems, population and patient challenges for achieving universal health coverage for hypertension in Ghana, Health Policy and Planning, 2021;, czab088, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab088
- Blankson PK, Nonvignon J, Aryeetey G, Aikins M. Injuries and their related household costs in a tertiary hospital in Ghana. Afr J Emerg Med. 2020;10(Suppl 1):S44-S49. doi: 10.1016/j.afjem.2020.04.004. Epub 2020 May 26. PMID: 33318901; PMCID: PMC7723915
- Azaare J, Akweongo P, Aryeetey GC and Dwomoh D. Impact of free maternal health care policy on maternal health care utilization and perinatal mortality in Ghana: protocol design for historical cohort study. Reproductive health. 2020; 17: 169.
- Nsiah-Boateng, E., Nonvignon, J., Aryeetey, G. C., Salari, P., Tediosi, F., Akweongo, P., & Aikins, M. (2019). Sociodemographic determinants of health insurance enrolment and dropout in urban district of Ghana: a cross-sectional study. Health Economics Review, 9(1), 23-23. doi:10.1186/s13561-019-0241-y
Elsey, H. Agyepong, I., Huque, R., Quayyum, Z., Baral, S. Ebenso, B., Kharel, C., Riffat, A. S., Onwujekwe, O., Uzochukwu, B., Nonvignon, J., Aryeetey, G., Kane, S., Ensor, T., Mirzoev, T. (2019). “Rethinking health systems in the context of urbanisation: challenges from four rapidly urbanising low- and middle- income countries” BMJ Global Health, 4(3), e001501. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001501
Fonta , C. L., Nonvignon, J., Aikins, M., Novignon, J., Aryeetey, G.C. (2019) Economic Analysis of Health Inequality Among the Elderly in Ghana Journal of Population Ageing https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-019-09245-7
Dzodzomenyo, M., Fink, G., Dotse-Gborgbortsi, W., Wardrop, N., Aryeetey, G., Coleman, N., . . . Wright, J. (2018). Sachet water quality and product registration: a cross-sectional study in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Water and Health, 16(4), 646-656. doi:10.2166/wh.2018.055
Wardrop, N. A., Hill, A. G., Dzodzomenyo, M., Aryeetey, G., & Wright, J. A. (2018). Livestock ownership and microbial contamination of drinking-water: Evidence from nationally representative household surveys in Ghana, Nepal and Bangladesh. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 221(1), 33-40. doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2017.09.014
Kotoh, A. M., Aryeetey, G. C., & Van der Geest, S. (2018). Factors That Influence Enrolment and Retention in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 7(5), 443–454
Nketia-Kyere, M., Aryeetey, G. C., Nonvignon, J., & Aikins, M. (2017). Exploring barriers to accessing physiotherapy services for stroke patients at Tema general hospital, Ghana. Archives of Physiotherapy, 7(1), 8. doi: 10.1186/s40945-017-0037-5
Fonta, C. L., Nonvignon, J., Aikins, M., Nwosu, E., & Aryeetey, G. C. (2017). Predictors of self-reported health among the elderly in Ghana: a cross sectional study. BMC Geriatrics, 17(1), 171. doi: 10.1186/s12877-017-0560-y
Agyepong, I. A., Kwamie, A., Frimpong, E., Defor, S., Ibrahim, A., Aryeetey, G. C., . . . Sombie, I. (2017). Spanning maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and health systems research boundaries: conducive and limiting health systems factors to improving MNCH outcomes in West Africa. Health Research Policy and Systems, 15(1), 54. doi: 10.1186/s12961-017-0212-x
Nortey, S. T., Aryeetey, G. C., Aikins, M., Amendah, D., & Nonvignon, J. (2017). Economic burden of family caregiving for elderly population in southern Ghana: the case of a peri-urban district. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16(1), 16. doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0511-9
Aryeetey, G. C., Nonvignon, J., Amissah, C., Buckle, G., & Aikins, M. (2016). The effect of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on health service delivery in mission facilities in Ghana: a retrospective study. Globalization and Health, 12(1), 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s12992-016-0171-y
Aryeetey, G. C., Westeneng, J., Spaan, E., Jehu-Appiah, C., Agyepong, I. A., & Baltussen, R. (2016). Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. International Journal for Equity in Health, 15(1), 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s12939-016-0401-1
Ibrahim, A., Aryeetey, G. C., Asampong, E., Dwomoh, D., & Nonvignon, J. (2016). Erratic electricity supply (Dumsor) and anxiety disorders among university students in Ghana: a cross sectional study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10(1), 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s13033-016-0053-y
Nonvignon, J., Aryeetey, G. C., Issah, S., Ansah, P., Malm, K. L., Ofosu, W., Tagoe, T., Agyemang, S.A., & Aikins, M. (2016). Cost-effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in upper west region of Ghana. Malaria Journal, 15(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1418-z
Nonvignon, J., Aryeetey, G. C., Malm, K. L., Agyemang, S. A., Aubyn, V. N. A., Peprah, N. Y., Bart-Plange, C.N., & Aikins, M. (2016). Economic burden of malaria on businesses in Ghana: a case for private sector investment in malaria control. Malaria Journal, 15(1), 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12936-016-1506-0
Wright, J., Dzodzomenyo, M., Fink, G., Wardrop, N. A., Aryeetey, G. C., Adanu, R. M., & Hill, A. G. (2016). Subsidized Sachet Water to Reduce Diarrheal Disease in Young Children: A Feasibility Study in Accra, Ghana. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 95(1), 239-246. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0854
Wright, J., Dzodzomenyo, M., Wardrop, N. A., Johnston, R., Hill, A., Aryeetey, G., & Adanu, R. (2016). Effects of Sachet Water Consumption on Exposure to Microbe-Contaminated Drinking Water: Household Survey Evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13(3), 303. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13030303
Novignon, J., Aboagye, E., Agyemang, O. S., & Aryeetey, G. (2015). Socioeconomic-related inequalities in child malnutrition: evidence from the Ghana multiple indicator cluster survey. Health Economics Review, 5, 34. doi: 10.1186/s13561-015-0072-4
Agyepong, I. A., Aryeetey, G. C., Nonvignon, J., Asenso-Boadi, F., Dzikunu, H., Antwi, E., Ankrah, D., Adjei-Acquah, C., Esena, R., Aikins, M, & Arhinful, D. K. (2014). Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme – a systems approach. Health Research Policy and Systems, 12(1), 1-17. doi: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-35
Aryeetey GC, Nonvignon J, Aikins, M (2014). Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: prospects and challenges. In Fobil J, Nonvignon J (Eds) Public Health Issues in Ghana: Practice, Interventions and Control Strategies. ISBN: 978-9988-1-9901-2. Digibooks, Accra
Bosomprah, S., Aryeetey, G. C., Nonvignon, J., & Adanu, R. M. (2014). A decomposition analysis of change in skilled birth attendants, 2003 to 2008, Ghana demographic and health surveys. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14(1), 1-7. doi: 10.1186/s12884-014-0415-x
Novignon, J., Novignon, JN., Aryeetey, G. C., & Nonvignon, J. (2014). HIV/AIDS-related stigma and HIV test uptake in Ghana: evidence from the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey. African Population Studies, 28(3), 1362-1379.
Aryeetey, G. C., Jehu-Appiah, C., Kotoh, A. M., Spaan, E., Arhinful, D. K., Baltussen, R., van der Geest, S., &. Agyepong, I. A. (2013). Community concepts of poverty: an application to premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. Globalization and Health, 9(1), 1-11. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-12
Aryeetey, G. C., Jehu-Appiah, C., Spaan, E., Agyepong, I., & Baltussen, R. (2012). Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 17(1), 43-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02886.x
Jehu-Appiah, C., Aryeetey, G., Agyepong, I., Spaan, E., & Baltussen, R. (2012). Household perceptions and their implications for enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning, 27(3), 222-233. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czr032
Jehu-Appiah, C., Aryeetey, G., Spaan, E., de Hoop, T., Agyepong, I., & Baltussen, R. (2011). Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: Who is enrolling, who is not and why? Social Science & Medicine, 72(2), 157-165. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.10.025
Aryeetey, G. C., Jehu-Appiah, C., Spaan, E., D’Exelle, B., Agyepong, I., & Baltussen, R. (2010). Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of three strategies. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 15(12), 1544-1552. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02663.x
Jehu-Appiah, C., Aryeetey, G., Spaan, E., Agyepong, I., & Baltussen, R. (2010). Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: An application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana. Health Policy, 95(2–3), 166-173. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.11.017
Ongoing Projects
Title | Role on the Project | Duration of the Project | Funder |
Examplars in Global Health: Primary Health Care Performance and Efficiency | Co-PI | 8 months starting September 2021 | The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Inclusive and accountable decision support for health systems in Ghana and Kenya | Co-PI | 4 years starting April 2021 | Norwegian Research Council Grant |
Priority setting mechanism for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria Programs in Ghana | Co-PI | 12 months starting September 2021 | Center for Global Development, Europe |
Community led responsive and effective urban health systems (ChoRUS). Filling in the gaps in evidence: building stronger and resilient health systems | Co-PI | 6 years starting December 2019 | DfID |
Completed Projects
Title | Role on the Project | Duration of the Project | Funder | |
Investment case for preventive chemotherapy treatment neglected tropical diseases in Ghana
| Consultant | 2 months starting July 2021 | Ascend (West and Central Africa) UK AID | |
Living in the city: Building collaborations to strengthen health systems to respond to the needs of newly urbanised populations in Africa and Asia | Co-PI | 9 months starting March 2020 | NIHR-UK | |
Political economy analysis of financing traditional vaccines and vitamin A supplementation in Eastern and Southern African Countries (ESAR). | Co-PI | 140 days starting September 2018 | UNICEF | |
Cost-effectiveness of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in Upper West Region, Ghana | Co-PI | 35 days starting November 2015 | DfID | |
Economic and psychological burden of schizophrenia on family caregivers in Ghana | Co-PI | 2 years starting August 2015 | African Population and Health Research Center & IDRC | |
Economic burden of malaria on businesses in Ghana: a business case for investing in malaria control | Co-PI | 6 months starting March 2015 | DfID, through National Malaria Control Programme, Ghana | |
Fiscal implications for African countries recently graduating from low to lower middle-income status: the case of Ghana and Kenya | Co-PI | 9 months starting February 2015 | African Health Economics Association (AfHEA) | |
Costing of Malaria Service Delivery in Ghana | PI | 12 months starting October 2014 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through SWISS TPH | |
Documentation of publications on Universal Health Coverage on Africa Health Economics Association (AfHEA) website | Co-PI | 13 months starting July 2014 | African Health Economics Association (AfHEA) | |
Urban drinking water and health outcomes-A randomized controlled trial pilot in Accra, Ghana | Co_PI | 2 Years starting January 2013 | Medical Research Council (MRC) | |
Evaluation of the Ghana-Diagnostic Related Grouping (G-DRG) payment system of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme | Co-PI | 12 months starting March 2013 | World Bank Health Insurance Project Ghana | |
The effect of National Health Insurance Scheme on operation of mission health facilities in Ghana. | Co-PI | 12 months starting October 2012 | Christian Health Association of Ghana |