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Dr. Genevieve Cecilia N. O. Aryeetey

Dr. Genevieve Cecilia N. O. Aryeetey
Senior Lecturer
gcaryeetey@ug.edu.gh

 

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD  (Medical Sciences)                                                                - Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen Netherlands
  • MA   (International Development)                                                    - International University of Japan, Niigata Japan
  • BA    (Economics with Geography and Resource Development)         - University of Ghana, Legon Ghana
  • Diploma (Statistics)                                                                        - University of Ghana, Legon Ghana

 

Genevieve Cecilia is a Lecturer in health economics and health policy. She is involved in teaching (health policy, health economics, and monitoring and evaluation in public health) and supervising bachelor, master students (principal supervisor) and doctoral students (co-supervisor). Her current research interest include health financing (health insurance), economic evaluation and impact evaluation of health programs, poverty and inequalities in health. She has been involved in a number of projects with funding and collaboration from Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-WOTRO), Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Research in Africa (CHEPSAA), Department for International Development (DFID), National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) and National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP).

Some research projects undertaken include targeting the poor for premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme, Evaluation of the G-DRG for services and medicines, the economic burden of malaria on businesses in Ghana and the cost-effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemo-prevention intervention for children under five in the Upper West Region, Ghana.

Genevieve is a member of Economic and Health Policy Associations such as the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), Health Systems Global Network, Global Evaluation and Monitoring Network for Health (GEMNet-Health)

 

Membership of Scientific/Technical committees/Working Group

  • 2012-2015 Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA)
  • 2013 to date Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Sub-Committee, Ghana AIDS     Commission
  • 2013 to date Global Evaluation and Monitoring Network for Health (GEMNet Health)
  • 2011 to date International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
  • 2013 to date African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA)

 

Technical Reviewer

  • Tropical Medicine and International Health
  • International Journal of Equity in Health
  • Globalization and Health

 

Courses taught

  • PhD: HPPM 706-Monitoring and Evaluation in Public Health
  • MPH: HPPM 644-Health Policy Research and Analysis
  • MPH: HPPM 646-Advance Health Policy
  • BPH: GSPH 313-Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programmes

 

Research focus and interest

  • Health Financing (Health Insurance)
  • Poverty and social protection
  • Inequalities in Health
  • Economic Evaluation of Health Programs
  • Impact Evaluation of Health Programs
  • Mental health

 

Selected Research Projects Completed (Within Past 5 Years:

  • November 2015: Co-investigator, Cost-effectiveness of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) in Upper West Region, Ghana
  • October 2014: Principal Investigator, Costing of Malaria Service Delivery in Ghana in collaboration with Swiss Tropical Institute for Public Health (Swiss TPH) and the National Malarial Control Programme (NMCP). Funded by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • July 2014: Co-investigator, Documentation of publications in Universal Health Coverage on AfHEA website Funded by: African Health Economics Association (AfHEA)
  • January 2013: SPH project team member, urban drinking water and health outcomes-A randomized controlled trial in Accra, Ghana. Provide economic analysis (CEA). Funded by: Medical Research Council (MRC), UK
  • March 2013 – March 2014: Co-investigator, “Evaluation of the Ghana-Diagnostic Related Grouping (G-DRG) payment system of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme.” Member of a team currently undertaking the evaluation through desk review and survey of selected health facilities District Mutual Health Insurance Schemes on behalf of the National Health Insurance Authority. Funded by: National Health Insurance Authority, Ghana
  • October 2012 –January 2014: Co-investigator, “The effect of National Health Insurance Scheme on operation of mission health facilities in Ghana.” Led a team to undertake a nationwide survey of selected mission health facilities. Member of the team that analysed the data and produced draft report to the Christian Health Association of Ghana, funders of the study. Funded by: Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG)
  • May 2008-August 2012: “Reaching the poor with health insurance”-SHINE-Ghana Project. Part of three PhD candidates employed to work on the project. Worked as the health economist with focus on efficient and effective strategies to target the poor for premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Funded by: NWO-WOTRO

 

On-Going Research Projects:

Evaluation of the Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: evidence of co-payments, quality of care, access to medicines, client perceptions of quality and challenges

 

Selected Publications

  • Wright, J., Dzodzomenyo, M., Wardrop, N. A., Johnston, R., Hill, A., Aryeetey, G., & Adanu, R. (2016). Effects of Sachet Water Consumption on Exposure to Microbe-Contaminated Drinking Water: Household Survey Evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,13(3), 303. http://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13030303
  • Ibrahim, A., Aryeetey, G. C., Asampong, E., Dwomoh, D., & Nonvignon, J. (2016). Erratic electricity supply (Dumsor) and anxiety disorders among university students in Ghana: a cross sectional study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10, 17. http://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0053-y
  • Novignon J, Aboagye E, Agyemang OS, Aryeetey, G (2015). Socioeconomic related inequalities in child malnutrition: evidence from the Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. Health Economic Review 5:34 doi:10.1186/s13561-015-0072-4
  • Bosomprah S, Aryeetey G, Nonvignon J & Adanu RM (2014) A decomposition analysis of change in skilled birth attendants, 2003 to 2008, Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 14(1):2
  • Aryeetey GC, Nonvignon J, Aikins, M (2014). Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: prospects and challenges. In Fobil J, Nonvignon J (Eds) Public Health Issues in Ghana: Practice, Interventions and Control Strategies. ISBN: 978-9988-1-9901-2. Digibooks, Accra
  • Agyepong IA, Aryeetey GC, Nonvignon J, Asenso-Boadi F, Dzikunu H, Antwi E, Ankrah D, Adjei-Acquah C, Esena R, Aikins M and Arhinful DK (2014) ‘Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme--a systems approach’. Health Res Policy Syst. 2014 Aug 5; 12:35. doi: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-35.
  • Novignon J, Novignon N, Aryeetey G & Nonvignon J (2014) HIV/AIDS-related stigma and HIV test uptake in Ghana: evidence from the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey. African Population Studies  28(3):1362-1379
  • Aryeetey GC, Jehu-Appiah C, Spaan E, Arhinful DK, Baltussen R, van der Geest S and  Agyepong (2013) ‘Community concepts of poverty: implications for premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme’ Globalization and Health 2013 Mar 14;9:12. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-12
  • Jehu-Appiah C, Aryeetey GC, Spaan E, Agyepong IA and Baltussen R (2011) ‘Household perceptions and their implications on the National Health Insurance Scheme’ Health Policy Plan. 2012 May; 27(3):222-33. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czr032. Epub 2011 Apr 18.
  • Jehu-Appiah C, Aryeetey GC, Spaan E, De Hoop T,  Agyepong IA and Baltussen R (2011) ‘Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: who is enrolling, who is not and why?’ Social Science & Medicine 72 (2): 157-165
  • Aryeetey GC, Jehu-Appiah C, Spaan E,  Agyepong IA and Baltussen R (2011) ‘Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies’ Tropical Medicine and International Health September 23, 2011
  • Aryeetey GC, Jehu-Appiah C, Spaan E, D’Exelle B, Agyepong IA and Baltussen R (2010) ‘Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of three strategies’ Tropical Medicine and International Health 15(12): 1544-1552
  • Jehu-Appiah C, Aryeetey GC, Spaan E, Agyepong IA and Baltussen R (2010) ‘Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: an application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana’ Health Policy 95: 166-173

 

 

Conference Presentations

  • 2010 1st Global Health Systems Symposium (Switzerland)-Poster Presentation on strategies to identify the poor for premium exemptions in Ghana’s NHIS
  • 2011 9th World Congress in Health Economics (iHEA) (Toronto Canada)-Co presenter
  • 2012 2nd Health Systems Global (Beijing China)-Organised session-co-presenter