Prof. Ayaga Agula Bawah

Ayaga A. Bawah is a Professor of Demography and Population Health at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, and a Research Affiliate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. He is a former Director of RIPS. He has expertise in population and health research in Africa, particularly in research methodology, longitudinal data analysis and modeling of demographic processes, and evaluation of health interventions including maternal and child health. Prior to joining University of Ghana, he was Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, New York. He previously worked with the INDEPTH Network and the Navrongo Health Research Centre, both in Ghana.  He was a member of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority’s Technical Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials (TAC-CT) and current member of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Data and Biospecimen Access Committee. He is a member of several professional population associations such as the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), and the Population Association of America (PAA). He holds Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Population Studies and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana. He has close to 150 peer-reviewed published articles to his credit. 

aabawah@ug.edu.gh