Academic Qualifications
Research Interests
Schistosomiasis & Malaria Control
Dr. Anto has extensive experience working in the Ghana Health Service as a Health Research Officer. He has collaborated with other researchers and conducted several researches across Ghana and Internationally. He is currently the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Public Health Programme in the School of Public Health.
Current Major Research Projects
Selected Publications
Anto F, Asoala V, Adjuik M, Anyorigiya T, Oduro A, et al. (2013) Water Contact Activities and Prevalence of Schistosomiasis Infection among School-age Children in Communities along an Irrigation Scheme in Rural Northern Ghana. J Bacteriol Parasitol 4: 177.
Anto, F., Asoala, V., Anyorigiya, T., Oduro, A., Adjuik, M., Owusu-Agyei, S., Dery, D., Bimi, L. and Hodgson, A. (2009). Insecticide resistance profiles for malaria vectors in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana. Malaria Journal; 8:81.
Anto, F., M. E. Aryeetey, T. Anyorigiya, V. Asoala and J. Kpikpi (2005). The relative susceptibilities of juvenile and adult Bulinus globosus and Bulinus truncatus to the molluscicidal activities in the fruit of Ghanaian Blighia sapida, Blighia unijugata and Balanites aegyptiac. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 99 (2): 211-217.
Benjamin Osei-Tutu and Francis Anto (2016). Trends of reported foodborne diseases at the Ridge Hospital, Accra, Ghana: a retrospective review of routine data from 2009-2013. BMC Infectious Diseases; 16:139 DOI 10.1186/s12879-016-1472-8
Irene Offei Owusu, Dziedzom K. de Souza, Francis Anto, Michael D. Wilson, Daniel A. Boakye, Moses J. Bockarie and John O. Gyapong (2015). Evaluation of human and mosquito based diagnostic tools for defining endpoints for elimination of Anopheles transmitted lymphatic filariasis in Ghana. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg; 109: 628–635doi:10.1093/trstmh/trv070
Justin Stoler, Rawanal Dashti, Francis Anto, Julius N. Fobil, Gordon A. Awandare (2014). Deconstructing “malaria”: West Africa as the next front for dengue fever surveillance and control Acta Tropica, 135: 58-65.
Armah GE, Hoshino Y, Santos N, Binka F, Damanka S, Adjei R, Honma S, Tatsumi M, Manful T, Anto F. (2010). The global spread of rotavirus G10 strains: Detection in Ghanaian children hospitalized with diarrhea. Journal of Infectious Diseases. Suppl: 231-238.
Oduro, A. R., Aborigo, R. A., Amugsi, D., Anto, F., Anyorigiya, T., Atuguba, F., Hodgson, A. and Koram, K. A. (2008). Understanding and retention of the informed consent process among parents in rural northern Ghana. Medical Ethics; 9:12
Owusu-Agyei, S., Awini, E., Anto, F., Mensah-Afful, T., Adjuik, M., Hodgson, A., Afari, E. and Binka, F. (2007). Assessing malaria control in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana through repeated surveys using the RBM tools. Malaria Journal; 6(1):103
Oduro, A. R., Anyorigiya, T., Koram, K., Anto, F., Atobrah, P. and Hodgson, A. (2007). Amodiaquine in future combination treatment of malaria in Ghana Tropical Doctor; 37: 154–156
Maxwell Appawu, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Samuel Dadzie, Victor Asoala, Francis Anto, Kwadwo Koram, William Rogers, Francis Nkrumah, Stephen L. Hoffman, and David J. Fryauff (2004). Malaria transmission dynamics at a site in northern Ghana proposed for testing malaria vaccines. Tropical Medicine and International Health; 9(1): 1-7.
The Navrongo Rotavirus Research Group: Fred N. Binka, Francis K. Anto, Abraham R. Oduro,. Elizabeth A. Awini, Alex K. Nazzar, George E. Armah, Richard H. Asmah, Andrew J. Hall et al. (2003) Incidence and Risk Factors of Pediatric Rotavirus Diarrhea in Northern Ghana . Tropical Medicine and International Health Vol. 8(9) 840-846.
Owusu-Agyei, S., Binka, F., Koram, K. Anto, F., Adjuik, M., Nkrumah, F. and Smith, T. (2002). Does radical cure of asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum place adults in endemic areas at increased risk of recurrent symptomatic malaria? Tropical Medicine and International Health; 7 (7): 599-603.
Asmah, R. H., Green, J., Armah, G. E., Gallimore, C. I., Gray, J. J., Iturriza-Gomara, M., Anto, F., Oduro, A., Binka, F. N., Brown, D. W. and Cutts, F. (2001). Rotavirus G and P genotypes in rural Ghana. Journal of Clinical Microbioogy, 39(5):1981-4198.
Book chapter
Anto, F & Bimi L (2014). The distribution and possible avoidance of competition among Lanistes varicus snails in the Tono irrigation canals in northern Ghana. In: Public Health Issues in Ghana: Practice, Interventions and Control Strategies (Ed. Julius Fobil & Justice Nonvignon), University of Ghana Readers, Digibooks Ghana Ltd. pp. 69-77.