Staff List

NAME:Nathan Kumasenu Mensah Mensah N.
Email:mensahnathan@yahoo.com; nmensah@navrongo.mimcom.net

Academic Qualification/Expertise:

MSc (Math) MSc (H. Informatics)

Background:

Nathan has a master’s in Mathematics from the Donetsk State University, Ukraine and quite recently another Masters in Health Informatics from the University of Ghana. He joined NHRC in 1997 and had been involved in the management of data in Ghana and outside. He was involved in data management of W.H.O study 13 (A double blind randomized placebo-controlled artesunate suppository trial) which run in Ghana, Tanzania and Bangladesh. He was also the data manager for an Epi – linked cluster randomized trial of IPTi (A project run by the LSHTM under Greenwood and Chandramohan)

Research

His research interests includes database management and design, monitoring of projects.

Selected Publications

  1. Blaire G, Hodgson A, Smith T, Gagneux S, Adjuik M, Pluschke G, Mensah Kumasenu N, Binka F. N: Risk factor for Meningococcal meningitis in Northern Ghana, 2001, Tran R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. (2001) 95, 477-480
  2. Kleinschmidt I, Omumbo J, Briet O, van de Giesen N, Sogoba N, Mensah Kumasenu N, Windmeijer P, Moussa M, Teusher T: An empirical malaria distribution map for West Africa, Tropical Medicine and International Health vol. 6 No 10 pp779-786 October 2001
  3. Chandramohan D, Owusu-Agyei S, Carneiro I, Awine T, Amponsa-Achiano K, Mensah N, Jaffar S, Baiden R, Hodgson A, Binka F, Greenwood B: Cluster randomised trial of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in area of high, seasonal transmission in Ghana, BMJ. 2005 October v.331 (7519)
  4. Abraham Oduro, Kwadwo Koram, William Rogers, Frank Atuguba, Patrick Ansah, Thomass Anyorigiya, Akosua Ansah, Francis Anto, Nathan Mensah, Abraham Hodgson, Francis Nkrumah: Severe falciparum malaria in young children of the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana, Malar J. 2007 Jul 27,6(1):96