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Clement Ahiadeke's Profile |
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He is a member of the Population Association Of America (PAA); American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS); Union For African Population Studies (UAPS) and has worked in the following countries Australia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Thailand and USA. Prof. Ahiadeke's research interest centers around
maternal and child health and nutrition, reproductive health and
family planning program evaluation and the general application of
demographic processes to constructing poverty indicators. He also
enjoys designing large-scale and complex surveys and has special
competence in analyzing large scale survey data sets. He also has
many technical and discussion papers to his credit. Among his publications
are Peer Review Publications : 2. Maternal mortality levels in Ghana: some new evidence from a panel data (Coming shortly in Studies in Family Planning) 3 Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Program:
Evaluating the Effects of Enhanced Training and Other Performance
Improvement Factors on the Quality of Maternal Care and Client Outcomes.
Report of the end line assessment. w/ Ivy Osei, B. Garshong, J.
Gyapong, P. Tapsoba, I. Askew, R. Killian, E. Bonku, P. Combary
and W. Sampson. (Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Services, Frontiers
Program/Population Council, PRIME II/ Intra Health International),
North Carolina, Research Triangle 4. Breastfeeding behavior and infant survival with emphasis on reverse causation bias: some evidence from Nigeria w/D.T Gurak and S.J. Schwager Social Biology: 47 94-113, 2001 5. Incidence of induced abortion in Southern Ghana (International Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, 27(2): 96-101& 108. 6. Workingwomen in an urban setting: traders, vendors and food security in Accra (w/Carol C. Levin et al.) World Development 27: 1977-1991 (1999) 7. Urban Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security
in Greater Accra.(with/ Daniel Maxwell et al. IFPRI Research Report
112, 2000). 9. Breastfeeding, diarrhea, and sanitation as components
of infant and child health: a study of large scale survey data from
Ghana and Nigeria, Journal of Biosocial Science 32:47-61 (2000) 11. Age-specific reference intervals (“normal ranges”) sbe13, Stata Technical Bulletin, November 1996, STB-34 12. Agrarian structure and social organization in a risk-prone environment: a comparison of the Birifor, Dagara, and the Lobi people of Burkina Faso Population and Environment 17:323-342 (1996). 13. Urbanization and the Modern Informal Sector: Another View of the Literature, Africa Development Vol. 10 (1986). 14. Evaluation of the Family Life Education Programme in Ghana, ISSER Technical Publication No. 48, 1985. 15. The Length of Working Life and some Related Studies Involving Industrial Workers in Ghana 1981-1982, ISSER Technical Publication #45, 1984. One of his greatest academic awards was the Robert McNamara Fellowship for Young Scientists which he used in the Onchocerciasis Secretariat in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 1987/88. He is married with two children. |
Dr.
Clement Ahiadeke is an Associate Professor, Head of the
Social Division and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of
Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana,
Legon. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Demography (with Biometry
and Epidemiology minors) from Cornell University, USA in 1996, an
MPH, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public
Health, USA in 1989, and an M.A in Population Studies, Regional
Institute for Population Studies in Ghana, 1982. He also has a first
degree in Statistics with Sociology minor from the University of
Ghana in 1978.
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