Staff List

Martin Alhassan Adjuik

Martin Alhassan Adjuik Email: madjuik@navrongo.mimcom.net, madjuik@gmail.com
Telephone Number(s)
Office: +233 742 22 310
Home +233 742 22712
Mobile number : +233 243714441
Job Title: Statistician

Academic Qualification/Expertise
1987- Dip. (Education) University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
1987- B.Sc. (Maths) University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
1993- Dip. (Statistics) University of Reading, Reading, UK
1994- MSc. (Biometry) University of Reading, Reading, UK

Life history in NHRC
When you joined the Centre: 1989
What work you did in the past: Data Manager
What work you are currently doing: Statistician

Employment History
1994 – todate  STATISTICIAN:  Navrongo Health Research Centre
My main role is to participate in the design, implementation, data collection, processing and analysis of all trials being conducted in the Centre with a view to ensuring quality data for analysis.  I do training of personnel in data management and data analysis.  I consult also on data design, collection, processing and analysis.
1999 –2004   STATISTICIAN on a TDR-sponsored project on the trials to find out the efficacy and safety of combining artesunate with standard long-acting anti-malarial drugs in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria.  I have undergone training in the methods of individual patient data meta-analysis and thus conducted and reported the meta-analysis of the trials involved in this collaboration.  I carried out the work at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, with support from the Clinical trials Unit of the MRC, UK and the Intervention Development & Evaluation Unit of the UNDP/WORLD BANK/WHO Special Programme for Research and training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). 
1996 – 1998   DATA CO-ORDINATOR, Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa (MARA) Project, an international collaboration that is attempting create a geographical information system (GIS) to integrate heterogeneous spatial data sets to produce a stratified risk map of the type and severity of malaria transmission in Africa in order to define the actual risk of malaria in Africa. I co-ordinated the collection of malariometric data consisting of parasite ratios, entomological inoculation rates and incidence data from the English-speaking countries in the West Africa sub-region.  The exercise involved contacting key malaria managers and searching libraries for the countries involved.   These data have been collated and managed at the MRC in Durban, South Africa.
1995 – 1997  PART-TIME TUTOR in mathematics for social sciences - First year students of the Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus
1989 – 1992     DATA MANAGER Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trials
I participated in the design of the questionnaires and the collection of the data.  I designed the data entry programs using Dbase III+, trained the data entry clerks and wrote programmes to check data consistency.
2005 – todate  PART-TIME TUTOR in statistics and statistical computing – third and final-year students of the Department of Statistics and Computing, Faculty of Applied Science, University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus

Research Areas or your Interest

    • Research in tropical diseases like malaria which especially concern child health
    • Statistical analysis and meta-analysis.
    • Computing techniques, data management and GIS in health
    • Teaching and training in above areas

Publications

  1. Owusu-Agyei S, Awini E, Anto F, Mensah-Afful T, Adjuik M, Hodgson A, Afari E, Binka F, Assessing malaria control in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana through repeated surveys using the RBM tools, Malaria Journal 2007, 6:103 (4 August 2007)
  2. Newton S, Owusu-Agyei S, Ampofo W, Zandoh C, Adjuik M, Adjei G, Tchum S, Filteau S, Kirkwood BR.  Vitamin A Supplementation Enhances Infants’ Immune Responses to Hepatitis B Vaccine but Does Not Affect Responses to Haemophilus influenzae Type b Vaccine. J. Nutr. 137: 1272–1277, 2007.
  3. Binka, Fred N., Ayaga A. Bawah, James F. Phillips, Abraham Hodgson, Martin Adjuik, and Bruce MacLeod. 2007.  Rapid achievement of the child survival Millennium Development Goal: Evidence from the Navrongo Experiment in northern Ghana.  Tropical Medicine and International Health , 12.5:578-583,May 2007.
  4. Bawah, Ayaga A., James F. Phillips, Martin Adjuik, Maya Vaughan-Smith, Bruce MacLeod, and Fred N. Binka. The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: Evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana, Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 218. New York: Population Council, 2006.
  5. Adjuik M., Smith T., Clark S., Todd J., Garrib A, Kinfu Y., Kahn K., Mola M., Ashraf A., Masanja H.,  Kubaje A., Sacarlal J., Alam N.,, Marra A.,  Gbangou A.,  Mwageni E.  and Binka F. Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-saharan Africa and Bangladesh.  Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 2006;84:181-188.
  6. Mugittu K., Adjuik, M., Snounou.G., Ntoumi, F., Taylor W., Mshinda, H.,  Olliaro P., Beck, H.   Molecular genotyping to distinguish between recrudescents and new infections in treatment trials of Plasmodium falciparum malaria conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa: adjustment of parasitological outcomes and assessment of genotyping effectiveness.  Tropical Medicine and International Health; 11,9 : 1350–1359 ,Sept. 2006.
  7. Adjuik, M., Babiker, A., Garner, P., Olliaro, P., Taylor, W. & White, N (2004). International Artemisinin Study Group,  Artesunate combination for the treatment of malaria: meta-analysis, The Lancet,363:9-17,2004.
  8. Oduro A.R., Anyorigiya T., Adjuik M., Afful, M., Anto, F., Atuguba, F., Owusu-Agyei, S., Hodgson, A.  A randomized, comparative study of two regimens of β-artemether for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria, in northern Ghana.  Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 2004 ; 98,5: 433-440.
  9. Oduro A.R., Owusu-Agyei, S.,Anyorigiya T., Adjuik M, Hodgson, A.
    Efficacy and acceptability of oral arthemether (Artemos ™) for the treatment of acute uncomplicated malaria in Ghana.  Ghana Madical Journal 2004 ; 38,2: 75-79.
  10. Stepniewska K,  Taylor WR, Mayxay M, Price R, Smithuis F, Guthmann JP, Barnes K, Myint HY, Adjuik M, Olliaro P, Pukrittayakamee S, Looareesuwan S, Hien TT, Farrar J, Nosten F, Day NP, White NJ. In vivo assessment of drug efficacy against Plasmodium falciparum malaria: duration of follow-up. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 48(11):4271-80. 2004
  11. Hale, B. R., Owusu-Agyei, S., Fryauff, D. J., Koram, K. A., Adjuik, M., Oduro, A. R, et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial of tefenoquine for weekly prophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2003;36:541-9.
  12. Adjuik M, Agnamey P, Babiker A, Borrmann S, Brasseur P, Cisse M et al.
    Amodiaquine-artesunate versus amodiaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in African children: a randomised, multi-centre trial.
    Lancet 2002; 359: 1365-72.
  13. Binka F, Hodgson A., Adjuik M, Smith T. Mortality in a seven-and-a-half-year follow-up of a trial of insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Ghana, Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 2002 Nov-Dec;96(6):597-9.
  14. Owusu-Agyei S, Binka F, Koram K, Anto F, Adjuik M, Nkrumah F et al.
    Does radical cure of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum place adults in endemic areas at increased risk of recurrent symptomatic malaria? Trop Med Int Health 2002; 7: 599-603
  15. Hodgson A, Smith T, Gagneux S, Adjuik M, Pluschke G,  Mensah NK, Binka F, Genton B.  Risk Factors For Meningococcal Meningitis In Northern Ghana.  Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 95:477-80, 2001.
  16. Hodgson A, Smith T, Gagneux S, Akumah I,  Adjuik M, Pluschke G,  Binka F, Genton B.  Survival and Sequelae Of Meningococcal Meningitis In Ghana. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30:1440-1446, 2001.