 Dr. Ayaga A. Bawah is a Principal Research Associate at INDEPTH where he leads the coordination of the network’s scientific activities, in addition to deputizing the Executive Director. His research interests are in the area of population and health in Africa, particularly infant and child mortality, health equity, reproductive health and methodological issues. He has expertise in analysis of large-scale data including, longitudinal, census, and survey data.
Prior to joining INDEPTH, Dr. Bawah was a Bernard Berelson Fellow in the Policy Research Division of the Population Council in New York. He previously headed the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance unit at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in northern Ghana. He also worked as Demographer (1996-1998) in-charge of the Navrongo Community Health and Family Project, now scaled up by the Government of Ghana as Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) for deploying health services to rural communities throughout Ghana.
Dr. Bawah holds MA in Population Studies from the United Nations Regional Institute (RIPS) at the University of Ghana and PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 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 also 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.
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