Dr Harriet Affran Bonful

Academic degrees:

PhD, MPH, BPharm (Hons),

Research interest: 

• Malaria and other infectious diseases
• mhealth interventions research 
• Antibiotic stewardship
• Pharmacovigilance 
• Non-communicable diseases (Depression,  hypertension, and  breast and cervical cancers)

Teaching: 

Disease Control, Writing for Public Health

Honour/Awards: 

1. Fellow, Ghana College of Pharmacists (FGCPharm) 
2. Recipient of the “Isaac Benjamin Quakyi award” for Best Environmental Health Student for 2005-2006 academic year, Master of Public Health (MPH) Program at the School of Public Health,  University of Ghana

3. A beneficiary of the German Academic Exchange Service Project (DAAD) Fellowship program

Selected Publications

1. Ansah, E. K., Narh-Bana, S., Affran-Bonful, H., Bart-Plange, C., Cundill, B., Gyapong, M., & Whitty, C. J. M. (2015). The impact of providing rapid diagnostic malaria tests on fever management in the private retail sector in Ghana: A cluster randomized trial. British Medical Journal, 350. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h1019
2. Bonful, H.A., Awua, A.K., Adjuik, M. et al. Extent of inappropriate prescription of artemisinin and anti-malarial injections to febrile outpatients, a cross-sectional analytic survey in the Greater Accra region, Ghana. Malar J (2019) 18: 331. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2967-8
3. Harriet Affran Bonful and Adote Anum (2019).Sociodemographic correlates of depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional analytic study among healthy urban Ghanaian women. BMC Public Health 19:50 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6322-8
4. Amankwa, C.E., Bonful, H.A., Agyabeng, K. et al. Dispensing practices for antimalarials in the La Nkwantanang-Madina municipality, Greater Accra, Ghana: a cross-sectional study.Malar J (2019) 18: 260. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2897-5
5. Harriet Affran Bonful, Adolf Kofi Awua, Doris Tsepetse, Richard M. Adanu, Dorothy Abudey, Akosua Gyasi, Keziah Malm, Pricillia Awo Nortey, Augustine Ankomah, Kwadwo Ansah Koram (2018). Massive over-treatment of uncomplicated malaria cases was associated with in- service training and SMS intervention in a quasi-experimental study in Ghana. In: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 67th Annual Meeting Abstracts Book, page 116, abstract no. 373  https://www.astmh.org/ASTMH/media/.../2018-Abstract-Book-FINAL-11-13.pdf