Staff List

ADONGO Baba Philip

P. B. Phillip

__________________________________Personal Details
Nationality: Ghanaian
Address: NHRC, PO Box 114, Navrongo. Ghana
Padongo@navrongo.mimcom.net
____________________________________Education
Doctor of Philosophy - Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Public Health Intervention Research Unit, University of London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. January 2004

Diploma in Hygiene and Tropical Medicine- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. January 2004

Master of Social Medical Anthropology – Department of Sociology and Anthropology. University of Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. September 1994

Bachelor of Arts – Sociology – Geographic. University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. September 1991
____________________________________Career
Principal Research Officer- Navrongo Health Research Centre. Ghana Health Services. 2008-to date

Programmeme Officer (IPTi Specialist)- UNICEF Ghana, Accra- Regional coordinator of Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants for malaria- operational research in the Upper East Region. 2006-2008

Research fellow and Lecture (Erasmus Mundus Scholar), attached to University of Copenhagen School of International Health with the responsibility of doing research and teaching Masters in International Health . 2005-2006

Post Graduate Fellow (Mellon Fellow, Population Council, New York) attached to Community Health and Family Planning Programme, Navrongo. 2003-2004

Head, social science unit, Navrongo Health Research Centre. Ministry of Health, Ghana. 1994-2000.

Research assistant at the Navrongo Health Research Centre. 1991

Classroom teacher at Awe Junior Secondary School. 1986-87.
______________________________________Consultancies:
Population Council, Ghana Accra office- Two Approaches to Recruiting and Training Community Health Nurses for CHPS: A Comparison of the Navrongo and Tamale CHNTS Models. An operation research for -CHPS-. 2005

Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine- Department of International Health and Development GAP . Follow-up evaluations of two surveillance modules training of trainers courses. 2005.

UNICEF, Ghana Accra- Implementation of treated bednet programmes in two northern regions as part of ACSD programme. 1999.

WHO/TDR Geneva- The management of malaria in young children in northern Ghana: A report of a rapid ethnographic study. Report submitted to WHO/TDR. Geneva. October 1995.

______________________________________Research Area

  1. Infectious disease (malaria, diarrhea)
  2. Child and Maternal Health
  3. Sexual and Reproductive Health
  4. Health Intervention Studies
  5. Health System Reforms

_______________________________________ Publications

  1. Philip B. Adongo; George E. Armah; Abraham V. Hodgson ; John Gyapong ; Fred N. Binka. (2008). Community based survey on the utilization of health care services for gastroenteritis in children in the Kassena-Nankana District. (In press)

  2. Philip B. Adongo, Betty Kirkwood, Carl Kendall. 2008. Pre-requisites for achieving high effective coverage with insecticide-treated nets (ITNs): Lessons learned from northern Ghana. In press

    <Wednesday, 16 December, 2009008. Malaria Research Trends: (Devin A. Flanigan edited) Chapter VI - Malaria Control and the Domestic Context: The Influence of Human Behavior on the Effectiveness of Insecticide Treated Nets Use (ITNS) in Northern Ghana; Nova Science Publishers, New York. pp. 179-196.

  3. A. Bazzano; B. Kirkwood; Charlotte Tawiah-Agyemang; S. Owusu-Agyei; P. B. Adongo. (2008) Beyond symptom and recognition: care-seeking for ill newborns in rural Ghana. International Health and Tropical Medicine. 13:1; 123-128.

  4. A. Bazzano; B. Kirkwood; Charlotte Tawiah-Agyemang; S. Owusu-Agyei; P. B. Adongo; (2008) Social cost of skilled attence at birth in rural Ghana. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.

  5. Abraham R. Oduro, P. Ansah, A. Hodgson, T.M. Afful, F. Baiden, P. Adongo, K.A Koram. 2006. Trends in the prevalence of female genital mutilation and its effect on delivery outcomes in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana. Ghana Medical Journal. Vol 40 (3). 

  6. F. Baiden, A. Hodgson, M. Adjuik, P. Adongo, B. Ayaga, F. Binka (2006). Trend and causes of neonatal mortality in the Kessena-Nankana district of northern Ghana, 1995-2002. International Health and Tropical Medicine. 11:4; 532-539.

  7. P. B. Adongo; Kirkwood; B.; Kendall, C. 2005. How local community knowledge about malaria affects bednet use in northern Ghana. International Health and Tropical Medicine. 10:4; 366-378

  8. Ngom P. Debpuur C, Akweongo P, Adongo P, Binka FN Gate-keeping and women's health seeking behaviour in Navrongo, northern Ghana. African Journal of Reproductive Health. 2003 7(1):17-26; PMID: 12816310.

  9. Ngom P., Akweongo P., Adongo P., Agula B. A. and Binka F. (1999) Maternal Mortality in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana. Studies in Family Planning. 30(2):142-147.

  10. Mbacke C., Adongo P. B., Akweongo P. and Binka F. N. (1998) Prevalence and correlates of female genital mutilation in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana. African Journal of Reproductive Health. Vol. 2 13-24.

  11. Adongo P. B., Akweongo P., Binka F. N. and Mbacke C. (1998) Female genital mutilation: Socio-cultural factors that influence the practice in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana. African Journal of Reproductive Health. Vol. 2 25-36.

  12. Adongo P. B., Phillips J. F. and Binka F. N. (1998) The influence of traditional religion on fertility regulation among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana. Studies in Family Planning. Vol.29. No.1 pp. 23-40.

  13. Binka F.N. and Adongo P. B. (1997) Acceptability and use of insecticide impregnated bednets in northern Ghana.  Tropical Medical and International Health.  Vol. 2. No.5. pp. 499-507.

  14. Adongo P. B., Phillips J.F. Kajhara B., Fayorsey C. and Debpuur C. (1997) Cultural factor constraining the introduction of family planning among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana. Social Science and Medicine. Vol. 45 No.12. pp. 1789-1804.

  15. Nazzar A., Adongo P. B., Binka F.N., Phillips J.F. and Debpuur C. (1995) “Developing a culturally appropriate family planning programme for the Navrongo experiment”. Studies in Family Planning. Vol.26. No.6 pp. 305-324.

    16. _______________________________________Conference and seminar papers
    Adongo B Philip. Social research and intervention versus Negative socio-Culture norms and practice: the Navrongo female genital mutilation experiment. College of health Sciences; School of Public Health- University of Ghana. Legon. June 2008

    Adongo B. Philip; Betty R. Kirkwood; Carl Kendall. Pre-requites for achieving high effective coverage with insecticide-treated bednets: Learns learned from Northern Ghana. Countdown to 2015: Tracking Progress in Child Survival Conference. London. December 2005

    Adongo, Philip B.; Elizabeth Jackson, Livesy Abokyi, Reshma Naik, Ellie S. Feinglass, and James F. Phillips.  “Can community-based interventions change detrimental social norms?  Experience from the Navrongo Female Genital Mutilation Experiment,” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2005.

    Adongo, Philip B., James F. Phillips, Rofina Asuru, Ellie S. Feinglass, and Abraham Hodgson. “Addressing men's concerns about reproductive health services in a rural community mobilization programme,” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April, 2004.

    Adongo P. B., Phillips J. F. and Binka F. N. The influence of traditional religion on fertility regulation among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) XXIIIrd International Population Conference, Beijing, China, 11-17 October, 1997.