Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
Biography
Dr. Ayaga A. Bawah is an Assistant Professor at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and a visiting Scholar at the University of Ghana School of Public Health. Before his appointment at Columbia University, he was a Senior Programme Manager at the INDEPTH Secretariat in Accra, Ghana, where he led the coordination of the network’s scientific activities, in addition to serving as the deputy to the Executive Director. Prior to joining INDEPTH, Dr. Bawah was a Bernard Berelson Fellow at the Policy Research Division of the Population Council in New York. He had previously worked at the Navrongo Health Research Centre, where he headed the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System, a longitudinal population tracking system that records basic demographic events such as births, deaths, migrations, as well as other attributes of the population as a basis for demographic evaluations of populations and their health. He was Population Council Mellon Fellow then. He had also been the Demographer in-charge of the panel survey operations of the Navrongo Community Health and Family Project, a large-scale trial that examined the demographic impact of community health and family planning interventions on reproductive change. This project has now been scaled up by the Government of Ghana as Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) for deploying health services to rural communities throughout the country.
Dr. Bawah holds MA in Population Studies from the United Nations Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) at the University of Ghana and an MA and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely several articles in peer-review journals and contributed to book chapters in the fields of population and health. He is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) and the Population Association of America (PAA). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board, General Demography of Africa, a series on the Demography of Africa based at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. He is currently a committee member of a United States National Academy of Sciences committee investigating the continuing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Bawah has previously taught Advanced Demographic methods and mathematical demography at the University of Ghana Regional Institute for Population Studies. He also taught a summer programme in demographic research at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002
Research Interests
Dr. Bawah’s research has focused mainly in the area of population and health in Africa, particularly infant and child mortality, health equity, reproductive health and methodological issues. He coordinated the work of several INDEPTH technical working groups responsible for analyses of large-scale data including, longitudinal, census, and survey data. As a scientist with the INDEPTH-Network, Dr. Bawah also led collaborative research on the preparation of a volume on model life tables for Africa. He has also coordinated partnerships on the evaluation African census data.
Dr. Bawah holds MA in Population Studies from the United Nations Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) at the University of Ghana and an MA and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely several articles in peer-review journals and contributed to book chapters in the fields of population and health. He is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) and the Population Association of America (PAA). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board, General Demography of Africa, a series on the Demography of Africa based at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. He is currently a committee member of a United States National Academy of Sciences committee investigating the continuing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Bawah has previously taught Advanced Demographic methods and mathematical demography at the University of Ghana Regional Institute for Population Studies. He also taught a summer programme in demographic research at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002
Research Interests
Dr. Bawah’s research has focused mainly in the area of population and health in Africa, particularly infant and child mortality, health equity, reproductive health and methodological issues. He coordinated the work of several INDEPTH technical working groups responsible for analyses of large-scale data including, longitudinal, census, and survey data. As a scientist with the INDEPTH-Network, Dr. Bawah also led collaborative research on the preparation of a volume on model life tables for Africa. He has also coordinated partnerships on the evaluation African census data.
Ayaga A. Bawah