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Dr. Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong

Senior Lecturer

Contact Info Email: ptabong@ug.edu.gh

Education and Qualification

Education:

 

 University of Ghana School of Public Health, July 2017

University of Ghana School of Public Health, July 2012

University of Ghana School of Nursing, July 2008

 

 

 

 

Qualification:

 

PhD In Public Health

Master of Science in Applied Health Social Science

Bachelor of Arts in Nursing and Psychology (combined Major)

Working Experience

  1. Lecturer, University of Ghana, December January, 2019 to date

  2. Research Officer: University of Ghana School of Public Health- February 2013 to July 2016.

  3.  Ghana Health Service, October 2001-January 2013.

Publications

  1. Aikins M, Tabong, PT-NT, Salari P, Tediosi F, Asenso-Boadi FM, Akweongo P (2021). Positioning the National Health Insurance for financial sustainability and Universal Health Coverage in Ghana: A qualitative study among key stakeholders. PLos ONE 16(6).
  2. Tabong PT-NT, Segtub M (2021). Misconceptions, Misinformation and Politics of COVID-19 on Social Media: A Multi-Level Analysis in Ghana. Frontiers in Communication 6:613794.
  3. Tabong PT-N, Kyilleh JM, Amoah WB (2021). Reasons for the utilization of the services of traditional birth attendants during childbirth: A qualitative study in Northern Ghana. Journal of Women's Health 17(1):1-10.
  4. Asiimwe N, Tabong PT-N, Iro SA, Noora CL, Opoku-Mensah K, Asampong E (2021) Stakeholders’ perspective of, and experience with contact tracing for COVID-19 in Ghana: A qualitative study among contact tracers, supervisors, and contacts. PLoS ONE 16(2)
  5. Tabong PTN, Akweongo P, Adongo PB (2021). Community beliefs about tuberculosis in Ghana: Implications for the end tuberculosis global agenda. Cogent Medicine, 8(1), p.1870069.
  6. Yaro PB, Asampong E, Tabong PT-N, Anaba SA, Azuure SS, Dokurugu AY, Nantogmah FA (2020). Stakeholders’ perspectives about the impact of training and sensitization of traditional and spiritual healers on mental health and illness: A qualitative evaluation in Ghana. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 

  7. Ahorlu CS, Adongo P, Koenker H, Zigirumugabe S, Sika-Bright S, Koka E, Tabong PT-N, Piccinini D, Segbaya S, Olapeju B, Monroe P (2019). Understanding the gap between access and use: a qualitative study on barriers and facilitators to insecticide-treated net use in Ghana. Malaria Journal 18 (417).

  8. Chatio S, Welaga P, Tabong PT-N, Akweongo P (2019). Factors influencing performance of community-based health volunteers’ activities in the Kassena-Nankana Districts of Northern Ghana. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0212166.

  9. Owusu-Sarpong A, Agbeshie K, Tabong PT-NT (2018). The impact of rotavirus vaccine on diarrheal diseases among children under five years: a retrospective analysis of data from 2012 to 2015 in the Yilo Krobo municipality of Ghana. Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana. 7 (2) 68-71.
  10. Tabong PT-N, Maya, ET, Adda-Balinia, T, Kusi-Appouh, D, Birungi, H, Tabsoba P, Adongo, PB (2018). Acceptability and stakeholders perspectives on the feasibility of using trained psychologists and health workers to deliver school-based sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents in urban Accra, Ghana. BMC Reproductive Health. 15 (122).
  11. Sumaila A-N, Tabong PT-N (2018). Rational prescribing of antibiotics in children under 5 years with upper respiratory tract infections in Kintampo Municipal Hospital in Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. BMC Research Notes. 11 (442).
  12. Tabong PT-N, Bawontuo V, Dumah DN, Kyilleh JM, Yempabe T (2018). Premorbid risk perception, lifestyle, adherence and coping strategies of people with diabetes mellitus: A phenomenological study in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Plos One
  13. Valdes V, Adongo, PB, Nwameme, A, Tabong, PT-N, Fernandes, M (2018). Risk Factors for Self-Reported Postpartum Hemorrhage in Ga East Municipal, Ghana. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
  14. Nwameme AU, Tabong PT-NT, Adongo PB (2018). Implementing Community-based Health Planning and Services in impoverished urban communities: health workers’ perspective. BMC Health Services Research. 18:186.
  15. Kyilleh, JM, Tabong, PT-N, Konlaan, BB (2018). Adolescents’ reproductive health knowledge, choices and factors affecting reproductive health choices: a qualitative study in the West Gonja District in Northern Region, Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 18 (6).
  16. Tabong PT-N, Adongo, PB (2013). Infertility and childlessness: a qualitative study of the experiences of infertile couples in Northern Ghana. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 13:72.
  17. Adongo PB, Tabong, PT-N, Asampong E, Ansong J, Robalo M, Adanu RM (2017). Health workers perceptions and attitude about Ghana’s preparedness towards preventing, containing, and managing Ebola Virus Disease. BMC Health Services Research. 17 (266).
  18. Adongo PB, Tabong PT-N, Asampong E, Ansong J, Robalo M, Adanu RM (2016). Preparing towards preventing and containing an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak: What socio-cultural practices may affect containment efforts in Ghana? PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(7)
  19. Adongo PB, Tabong, PT-N, Asampong E, Ansong J, Robalo M, Adanu RM (2016). Beyond Knowledge and Awareness: Addressing misconceptions in Ghana’s preparation towards an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease. Plos One 111(2).
  20. Adongo, PB, Tabong PT-N, Azongo TB, Phillips JF, Sheff MC, Stone AE, Tapsoba P (2014). A comparative qualitative study of misconceptions associated with contraceptive use in southern and northern Ghana. Frontiers in Public Health 2:137.
  21. Adongo PB, Tapsoba P, Phillips JF, Tabong PT-N, Stone A, Kuffour E, Esantsi S, Akweongo P (2014). “If you do vasectomy and come back here weak, I will divorce you”: A qualitative study of perceptions about vasectomy in Southern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 14:16.
  22. Adongo PB, Phillips JF, Aikins M, Arhin DA, Schmitt M, Nwameme AU, Tabong PTN-N, Binka, FN (2014). Does the design and implementation of proven innovations for the delivery of primary health services in rural setting communities fit urban setting: the case of Ghana's Community-based Health Planning and Service Strategy. Health Research Policy and System 12.
  23. Adongo PB, Tapsoba P, Phillips JF, Tabong PT-N, Stone A, Kuffour E, Esantsi S, Akweongo P (2013). The role community-based health planning and services strategy in involving males in the provision of family planning services: a qualitative study in southern Ghana. Reproductive Health, 10:36.
  24. Tabong PT-N, Adongo PB (2013). Understanding the social meaning of infertility and childbearing: A qualitative study of the perception of childbearing and childlessness in Northern Ghana. PLoS ONE 8(1): e54429. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054429.

Ongoing Projects

Title Role on the ProjectDuration of the Project Funder
Develop a Mini Massive Open Online Course in Implementation Research in Vaccine AdministrationCo-Investigator6 monthsWHO TDR
Improving the Effectiveness of Mass Long Lasting Insecticide-treated Net Distribution Campaigns Through Community-based Health Planning and Services Programme in Ghana (MY-CAMP)Co-Investigator 18 monthsHealth Communication Effectiveness Coalition/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Developing and curriculum and short course in Communication for DevelopmentCo-Investigator12 monthsUNICEF Ghana

Completed Projects


Title
Role on the ProjectDuration of the Project Funder
Capacity Building on Social Determinants of Health for Stakeholders in GhanaCo-Investigator6 monthsWHO Ghana
community knowledge, attitude and practice relating to Ebola Virus Disease prevention and medical care in GhanaCo-Investigator4 monthsWHO Ghana
socio-cultural and health system factors affecting tuberculosis case detection and treatment in Upper West Region of GhanaPrincipal Investigator3 yearsInstitute of Infectious Diseases of Poverty/Wellcome Trust