About

Dr. Abubakar Manu (B.Ed., MBA, PhD) is a Lecturer in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the School of Public Health. Dr. Manu’s main area of teaching and research is Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health issues. He has over 15 years’ experience in field research, working on diverse studies during which he coordinated several national projects. He successfully managed Teaching /research programmes of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health; a collaborative project  between the University of Ghana School of Public Health and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. He participated in the development departmental track-elective courses including adolescent health courses at both Masters and PhD levels. Dr. Manu is adept in curriculum development issues, project implementation, research design and implementation, data processing /management and statistical analysis of data. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Gates Institute in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2006. He has extensive knowledge in the use of Microsoft Office package, SPSS and EndNote software for referencing. His research interests include adolescent sexual and reproductive health and development, sexual risk behaviours, parent-child sexual communication, HIV-related risk behaviours and family planning. He teaches adolescent health and development: issues, policies and programmes at Masters and PhD levels.

Course he has been teaching over the last two years include:

• GSPH 407 School Health Services II (Undergraduate)

• PFRH 626 Adolescent Health Policies and Programmes (Masters)

• PFRH 684 Men’s Reproductive Health (Masters)

• PFRH 704 Critical Issues in Population and Reproductive Health (PhD)

• PFRH 705 Adolescent Health and Development: Issues, Policies and Programmes  (PhD)

Research Interests

• Young people sexuality & reproductive health

• Parent-child sexuality communication

• Internet technology and adolescent risky behaviours

• Family planning, especially young people

• Men’s reproductive health

Education and Qualification

• PhD (Public Health ), University of Ghana

• MBA  (Health Services Administration), University of Ghana

• B.Ed. (Social Science), University of Cape Coast

Publications

• Hall, K. S., Manu, A., Morhe, E., Challa, S., Loll, D., Dozier, J., Zochowski, M., Boakye, A., Harris, L., Adanu, R., Dalton, V.  (2016). Stigma and the Social Environment of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ghana: Understanding “Bad Girl”. Journal of Adolescent Health, 58(2), S4. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.10.024

• Challa, S., Manu, A., Morhe, E., Loll, D., Dozier, J., Zochowski, M., Boakye, A., Adanu, R.,Dalton, V. K. & Hall, K. (2015). A qualitative analysis of levels of influence on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Ghana. Contraception, 92(4) 410.

• Hall, K., Manu, A., Morhe, E., Zochowski, M., Boakye, A., Challa, S.  Loll, D., Dozier, J.,Harris, L., Adanu, R., & Dalton, V. K. (2015). Understanding “Bad Girl:” qualitativefindings on stigma and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Ghana.Contraception, 92(4):393-394.

• Manu, A. A., Mba, C. J., Asare, G. Q., Odoi-Agyarko, K. & Asante, R. K. O. (2015). Parent Child Communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health: Evidence from Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana. Reproductive Health, 12(1), 16. doi:10.1186/s12978-015-0003-1

• Laar, A., Manu, A., Laar, M., El-Adas, A., Amenyah, R., Atuahene, K., Quarshie, D., Adjei, A.A. and Quakyi, I. (2015). Coping strategies of HIV-affected households in Ghana.BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-9. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1418-x

• Abekah-Nkrumah, G., Manu, A. & Atinga, R. A. (2010). Assessing the Implementation of Ghana’s Patient Charter. Health Education. Vol. 110 No. 3, 2010 pp. 169-185

Ongoing Projects

1. Co-Investigator: African Research, Implementation Science, and Education (ARISE) Network Adolescent Health Study.  Collaboration between the University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, and the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston USA. (Funded by African Academy of Public Health/ Harvard).  Project Team: Richard Adanu (PI), Abubakar Manu (Co-PI), Wafaie Fawzi (Co-I), Chelsey Canavan (Co-I).

2. Co-Principal Investigator: Stigma and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ghana.  A collaborative research between the University of Michigan, USA, University of Ghana, Accra, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. (Funded by Society for Family Planning, USA)Project Team: Kelli Hall (Principal Investigator) Abubakar Manu (Co-PI), Emmanuel Morhe (Co-I), Vanessa Dalton (Co-I), Richard Adanu (Co-I).

3. Co-Investigator: The Impact of Method Choice on Contraception Continuation in Ghana.   A collaborative research between the University of Michigan, USA, University of Ghana, Accra and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (Funded by University of Michigan). Project Team: Vanessa Dalton (PI), Sarah Rominski (Co-I), Emmanuel Morhe (Co-I), Ernest Maya, (Co-I), and Abubakar Manu (Co-I).

4. Co-Investigator:   Understanding the Social, Economic and Behavioral Vulnerability to HIV of People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Accra/Tema/ and Takoradi and Kumasi, Ghana.   A collaborative study between the University of Ghana, Accra and University of California, San Francisco, USA (Funded by CDC). Project Team: Richard Adanu (PI), Kelly Taylor (Co-PI), Augustine Ankomah (Co-I) and Abubakar Manu (Co-I)

5. Co-Principal Investigator: Secondary data analysis of health status and behavior of first year students of the University of Ghana (Funded by University of Ghana Research Fund).  Project Team: Richmond Aryeetey (PI), Gloria Ansa (Co-PI) and Abubakar Manu (Co-PI).

6. Co-Investigator: HIV Prevention and sexual risk taking among female sex workers in oil communities of Western Region, Ghana (Funded by the University of Ghana Research Fund).  Project Team: Augustine Ankomah (PI), Abubakar Manu (Co-I), Seth Afagbezi (Co-I), Margaret Atuahene (Co-I) and Priscillia Awo Nortey (Co-I).

Completed Projects

1. Co-Investigator: Understanding the Social, Economic and Behavioural Vulnerability to HIV of People who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Accra/Tema/ and Takoradi, Ghana (Funded by CDC).Project Team: Richard Adanu (PI), Kelly Taylor (Co-PI), Augustine Ankomah (Co-I) and Abubakar Manu (Co-I).

2. Co-Investigator: Know-Your- HIV Response Study:  Mapping of HIV prevention activities to the district level in the Greater Accra region, Ghana (Funded by Measure Evaluation/USAID).Project Team: Augustine Ankomah (Co-I), Agnes Dzokoto (Co-I), Priscillia A Nortey (Co-I), Samuae K. K. Dery (Co-I), Abubakar Manu (Co-I).

3.  Co-Investigator:  National Health and HIV Survey of Prison Inmates and Prison Officers in Ghana (Funded by Ghana AIDS Commission) May 2012- June 2013

4. March 2008 – 2011 “Sexual Communication within Families and Influence on Sexual Behaviour and Contraception among Young  People in the Brong Ahafo Region” (PhD Thesis)