RIPS Faculty Member Wins Elsevier Atlas Award

Dr. Ayaga Bawah, Senior Lecturer at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) has been selected to receive the prestigious Elsevier Atlas Award as the best article for the month of January 2019.

Dr. Bawah’s article “Does the provision of community health services offset the effects of poverty and low maternal educational attainment on childhood mortality? An analysis of the equity effect of the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana”  was published in the journal SSM - Population Health and was selected from thousands of recently published articles to be awarded the Elsevier Atlas.

Each month a single Atlas article is selected from published research from across Elsevier’s 3,800 journals hosted at ScienceDirect, by an external advisory board made up of individuals from NGOs including the following organizations, among several others.

 

Congratulations Dr. Bawah!