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

1. 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. 
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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.

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

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