Completed Research Projects

  1. The Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trial (VAST)

  2. Epidemiology of Bancroftian filariasis in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana

  3. Bancroftian Filariasis in the Kassena-Nankana District

  4. Filariasis in northern Ghana: Some cultural beliefs and practices and their implications for disease control

  5. Impact of Permethrin impregnated Bednets

  6. Child Survival and Health in the Guinea Savanna (Ghana): A case-control study

  7. A community based study of risk factors in maternal mortality in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana

  8. Variation of Malarial Antigens and Malaria Attack Rates in Northern Ghana

  9. Assessment of Home Management of malaria in a rural community in Ghana.

  10. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation of weekly etaquine for chemo-suppression of Plasmodium falciparum in semi-immune adults living in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana

  11. Survey of Needs of People with Disability in the Upper East Region

  12. Impact of Community-Based Health and Family Planning Services on Maternal Mortality: The Navrongo Baseline Study

  13. The Dynamics of Severe Anaemia and Malaria Parasitemia in Young Children
     during the High (Malaria) Transmission Season in Northern Ghana

  14. Child morbidity and Health seeking behavior

  15. Social learning, social influence and fertility control

  16. Migration, Sexual Health, and STD/AIDS: A Three-Country Study: Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Togo

  17. Prevalence of P. falciparum Parasitemia in Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana

 

Research activities currently going on include

  1. The Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System

  2. Female Genital Mutilation study

  3. Community Health and Family Planning project

  4. The Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis project

  5. The Anaemia Study

  6. Double-blind randomized clinical trial of artesunate rectal capsules on child  survival in the Kassena-Nankana, District of Ghana

  7. Evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of EPI-linked malaria intermittent chemotherapy and iron supplementation

  8. Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health project

 

Projects that have directly influenced National Health Policy

 

  1. The Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trial (VAST)

  2. Impregnated Bednets

  3. Community Health and Family Planning project