Dr. Ogum

Dr. Deda Ogum

Senior Lecturer

Contact Info Email: dogum@ug.edu.gh

About

Deda Ogum Alangea (PhD) is a public health professional with specialty in Women and children’s health and nutrition. She has done extensive research and supervised graduate student research in nutrition and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights including reproductive coercion, intimate partner violence. Deda teaches Public Health Nutrition, population studies, research methods and reproductive health. She has expertise in short courses, development of content in reproductive health, data analysis and M&E of programmes. She serves as the head of the data analysis unit of the WHO-HRP Hub at the school of public health where she leads training on secondary data analysis; and mentors trainees to produce manuscripts on VAW and other reproductive health topics. Her completed projects include assessment of the burden of Obstetric fistula in Ghana, Impact assessment of the Rural Response System to prevent violence against women and girls in Ghana, and Maternal obesity and pregnancy outcomes study. She currently is the Programme director for a new Online MSc in SRH policy and programming jointly developed by the University of Ghana School of Public Health and the London School of hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She also works together with a community of gender activists, researchers and other stakeholders to shape the research agenda on gender-based violence in Ghana. She currently provides technical support to the Ghana Statistical service on a project aimed at producing citizens generated data on gender-based violence in Ghana towards addressing data gaps in SDG 5.1.1, 11.7.2 &16.2.3. She is a member of the APHRC-University of Ghana team that co-developed the Capacity Development on Violence Against Women Prevalence Survey in Eastern and Southern African Region (CaVAWPreS) short course. Deda Ogum Alangea holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Nutrition and a PhD in Public health.

Education and Qualification

DATE                QUALIFICATION                                     INSTITUTION                                 

July 2014         PhD (Public Health)                         University of Ghana, Ghana

June 2008        M.Phil. (Nutrition)                           University of Ghana, Ghana

June 2003        BSc (Nutrition & Food Science)      University of Ghana, Ghana

Working Experience

DATE                                                                      POSITION                                                    INSTITUTION

February 2021 to date                                       Senior Lecturer                    Department of population, Family                                                                                                                        & Reproductive Health, School of                                                                                                                        Public Health, University of Ghana,                                                                                                                        Legon.                                                                                                                         

November 1 2016 to January 31, 2021             Lecturer                               Department of population, Family                                                                                                                         & Reproductive Health, School of                                                                                                                         Public Health, University of Ghana,                                                                                                                       Legon.

                                                                                                                            

October 2014 to October 2016                       Research Associate               Department of population, Family                                                                                                                         & Reproductive Health, School of                                                                                                                         Public Health, University of Ghana,                                                                                                                       Legon.

                                                                                                                 

August 2004 to July 2011                              Research Assistant,              Department of Nutrition & Food                                                                                                                         Science, University of Ghana, Legon

                                                                      Quality Control officer 

                                                                      for a longitudinal study,

                                                                       Field Supervisor, 

                                                                                                 

Publications

  1. Alangea, Deda Ogum, Richmond N. Aryeetey, Heewon L. Gray, Amos K. Laar, and Richard MK Adanu. Dietary patterns and associated risk factors among school age children in urban Ghana. BMC nutrition 4, no. 1 (2018): 22.
  2. Amoakoh-Coleman, M., Ogum-Alangea, D., Modey-Amoah, E., Ntumy, M. Y., Adanu, R. M., & Oppong, S. A. (2017). Blood pressure patterns and body mass index status in pregnancy: An assessment among women reporting for antenatal care at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital, Ghana. Plos one, 12(12), e0188671.
  3. Oppong, S. A., Ntumy, M. Y., Amoakoh‐Coleman, M., Ogum‐Alangea, D., & Modey‐Amoah, E. (2015). Gestational diabetes mellitus among women attending prenatal care at Korle‐Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 131(3), 246-250.
  4. Addo-Lartey, A. A., Ogum Alangea, D., Sikweyiya, Y., Chirwa, E. D., Coker-Appiah, D., Jewkes, R., & Adanu, R. M. (2019). Rural response system to prevent violence against women: methodology for a community randomised controlled trial in the central region of Ghana. Global health action, 12(1), 1612604.
  5. Chirwa, E. D., Sikweyiya, Y., Addo-Lartey, A. A., Ogum Alangea, D., Coker-Appiah, D., Adanu, R. M., & Jewkes, R. (2018). Prevalence and risk factors of physical or sexual intimate violence perpetration amongst men in four districts in the central region of Ghana: Baseline findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial. PloS one, 13(3), e0191663.
  6. Ogum Alangea, D., Addo-Lartey, A. A., Sikweyiya, Y., Chirwa, E. D., Coker-Appiah, D., Jewkes, R., & Adanu, R. M. K. (2018). Prevalence and risk factors of intimate partner violence among women in four districts of the central region of Ghana: Baseline findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial. PloS one, 13(7), e0200874.
  7. Ogum Alangea, D., Addo-Lartey, A. A., Chirwa, E. D., Sikweyiya, Y., Coker-Appiah, D., Jewkes, R., & Adanu, R. M. (2020). Evaluation of the rural response system intervention to prevent violence against women: findings from a community-randomised controlled trial in the Central Region of Ghana. Global Health Action, 13(1), 1711336.
  8. Sikweyiya, Y., Addo-Lartey, A. A., Alangea, D. O., Dako-Gyeke, P., Chirwa, E. D., Coker-Appiah, D., ... & Jewkes, R. (2020). Patriarchy and gender-inequitable attitudes as drivers of intimate partner violence against women in the central region of Ghana. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1-11.
  9. Dako-Gyeke, P., Addo-Lartey, A. A., Alangea, D. O., Sikweyiya, Y., Chirwa, E. D., Coker-Appiah, D., ... & Adanu, R. M. K. (2019). 'Small small quarrels bring about happiness or love in the relationships’: Exploring community perceptions and gendered norms contributing to male perpetrated intimate partner violence in the Central Region of Ghana. PloS one, 14(11).
  10. Ogum-Alangea, D., Aryeetey, R. N., Gray, H. L., Laar, A. K., & Adanu, R. M. (2020). Basic school pupils’ food purchases during mid-morning break in urban Ghanaian schools. PloS one, 15(9), e0238308.
  11. Anaba, E. A., Manu, A., Ogum-Alangea, D., Modey, E. J., Addo-Lartey, A., & Torpey, K. (2021). Young people’s attitudes towards wife-beating: Analysis of the Ghana demographic and health survey 2014. PLoS one, 16(2), e0245881.
  12. Aheto, J. M. K., & Alangea, D. O. (2021). Multilevel analysis of risk factors associated with severe underweight among children under 5 years: evidence from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. Health Sciences Investigations (HSI) Journal, 2(1), 166-172.

Link to published work in Pubmed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/deda.ogum%20alangea.1/bibliography/public/

Link to published work in Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pvr3zyYAAAAJ&hl=en ; ‪Deda Ogum Alangea - ‪Google Scholar

Ongoing Projects

TitleRole on the ProjectDuration of the ProjectFunder
Capacity Development Strategy to enhance capacities of national institutions to collect Violence Against Women (VAW) Prevalence dataCo-PI2020 - 2022UN Women & WHO
Mental Health Impact and Access to Health and Social Care Services for Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence.Co-I2019 - 2022Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Research Development Fund (RDF)
Health system analysis of the barriers to access, availability, utilization and readiness of contraception and abortion/post-abortion services in COVID-19 affected areasPI2020 - 2022WHO-Human Reproduction Programme
Urban Adolescent Nutrition StudyResearch Associate2020-2022IFPRI