Researcher Biography
Edmund W. Kanmiki is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Science Research of the University of Queensland. His PhD research focuses on improving equity in health and access to maternal and child health services through community-based primary healthcare programs. Edmund had previously obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Economics from the University for Development Studies, Ghana. He has close to 10 years’ experience working in the areas of health systems and population health research driving from his work on several health systems projects at the University of Ghana and the Navrongo Health Research Center in Northern Ghana.
His Doctoral research is funded by a Research Training Program Scholarship provided by the University of Queensland.
PhD topic
Evaluating the Effect of Community-Based Primary Health Care on Equity in Health and Access to Maternal and Child Health Services
Advisors
- Dr. Martin O'Flaherty (Principal)
- Associate Professor Abdullah Mamun (Associate)
Research interests
- Health system research
- Health program evaluation
- Healthcare financing
- Health policy analysis
- Socio-economic inequalities in health
- Maternal and child health
- Mixed methods research
Journal Articles
Adageba, Stephen Kantum, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Asoala, Victor, Oduro, Abraham Rexford and Baidoo, Philip Kweku (2022). Bio-efficacy, physical integrity, use and attrition of long-lasting insecticidal nets under operational conditions for malaria prevention in Ghana. PLoS One, 17 (10) e0275825, 1-15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275825
Asuming, Patrick Opoku, Bawah, Ayaga Agula, Kanmiki, Edmund W. and Phillips, James F. (2022). The impact of a health systems strengthening initiative on child morbidity: the case of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program in rural northern Ghana. PLoS One, 17 (6) e0269199, 1-17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269199
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Fatima, Yaqoot and Mamun, Abdullah A. (2022). Multigenerational transmission of obesity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews, 23 (3) e13405, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/obr.13405
Alatinga, K. A., Kanmiki, E. W. and Abiiro, G. A. (2022). Out-of-pocket healthcare payments and impoverishment among migrant adolescent female head porters in Ghana: a cross sectional study. UDS International Journal of Development, 8 (2), 656-673. doi: 10.47740/603.udsijd6i
Agula, Caesar, Henry, Elizabeth G., Asuming, Patrick O., Agyei-Asabere, Charles, Kushitor, Mawuli, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Shah, Iqbal and Bawah, Ayaga A. (2021). Contraception before and after induced abortion: trajectories of women in selected urban-poor settlements of Accra, Ghana. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 25 (6), 20-31.
Alatinga, Kennedy A., Allou, Leander A. and Kanmiki, Edmund W. (2021). Contraceptive use among migrant adolescent girl head porters in Southern Ghana: policy implications for sexual and reproductive health education and promotion. Children and Youth Services Review, 120 105651, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105651
Akazili, James, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Anaseba, Dominic, Govender, Veloshnee, Danhoundo, Georges and Koduah, Augustina (2020). Challenges and facilitators to the provision of sexual, reproductive health and rights services in Ghana. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 28 (2) 1846247, 128-142. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1846247
Asuming, Patrick O., Bawah, Ayaga A., Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam and Phillips, James F. (2020). Does expanding community-based primary health care coverage also address unmet need for family planning and improve program impact? Findings from a plausibility trial in northern Ghana. Journal of Global Health Science, 2 (1). doi: 10.35500/jghs.2020.2.e18
Nonterah, Engelbert A., Agorinya, Isaiah A., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Kagura, Juliana, Tamimu, Mariatu, Ayamba, Emmanuel Y., Nonterah, Esmond W., Kaburise, Michael B., Al-Hassan, Majeedallahi, Ofosu, Winfred, Oduro, Abraham R. and Awonoor-Williams, John K. (2020). Trends and risk factors associated with stillbirths: A case study of the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital in Northern Ghana. PLoS One, 15 (2) e0229013, e0229013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229013
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bawah, Ayaga A., Akazili, James, Agorinyah, Isaiah, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Phillips, James F. and Kassak, Kassem M. (2019). Unawareness of health insurance expiration status among women of reproductive age in Northern Ghana: implications for achieving universal health coverage. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, 38 (1) 34, 34. doi: 10.1186/s41043-019-0190-4
Nonterah, Engelbert A., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Agorinya, Isaiah A., Sakeah, Evelyn, Tamimu, Mariatu, Kagura, Juliana, Kaburise, Michael B., Ayamba, Emmanuel Y., Nonterah, Esmond W., Awuni, Denis A., Al-Hassan, Majeedallahi, Ofosu, Winfred, Awoonor-Williams, John K. and Oduro, Abraham R. (2019). Prevalence and adverse obstetric outcomes of female genital mutilation among women in rural Northern Ghana. European Journal of Public Health, 30 (3), 561-567. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz195
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bawah, Ayaga A., Phillips, James F., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Kachur, S. Patrick, Asuming, Patrick O., Agula, Caesar and Akazili, James (2019). Out-of-pocket payment for primary healthcare in the era of national health insurance: evidence from northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (8) e0221146, e0221146. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221146
Bawah, Ayaga A., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Asuming, Patrick O., Jackson, Elizabeth F., Boyer, Christopher B., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Achana, Sebastian F., Akazili, James and Phillips, James F. (2019). The child survival impact of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program: a health systems strengthening plausibility trial in Northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (6) e0218025, e0218025. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218025
Bawah, Ayaga A., Phillips, James F., Asuming, Patrick O., Jackson, Elizabeth F., Walega, Paul, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Sheff, Mallory C. and Oduro, Abraham (2019). 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. SSM-Population Health, 7 100335. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.100335
Bawah, Ayaga A., Asuming, Patrick, Achana, Sebastian F., Kanmiki, Edmund W., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku and Phillips, James F. (2019). Contraceptive use intentions and unmet need for family planning among reproductive-aged women in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Reproductive Health, 16 (1) 26. doi: 10.1186/s12978-019-0693-x
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Akazili, James, Bawah, Ayaga A., Phillips, James F., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Asuming, Patrick O., Oduro, Abraham R. and Aikins, Moses (2019). Cost of implementing a community-based primary health care strengthening program: The case of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program in northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (2) e0211956, e0211956. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211956
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Phillips, James F., Kachur, Stephen Patrick, Achana, Sabastian F., Akazili, James and Bawah, Ayaga A. (2019). Socio-economic and demographic disparities in ownership and use of insecticide-treated bed nets for preventing malaria among rural reproductive-aged women in northern Ghana. PLoS One, 14 (1) e0211365, e0211365. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211365
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bempah, Ben Owusu Smith, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Bawah, Ayaga A., d'Almeida, Selassi Amah and Kassak, Kassem M. (2018). An assessment of a performance-based management agreement initiative in Ghana's health service. Bmc Health Services Research, 18 (1) 995, 995. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3810-6
Agorinya, Isaiah Awintuen, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Nonterah, Engelbert Adamwaba, Tediosi, Fabrizio, Akazili, James, Welaga, Paul, Azongo, Daniel and Oduro, Abraham Rexford (2018). Socio-demographic determinants of low birth weight: evidence from the Kassena-Nankana districts of the Upper East Region of Ghana. PLoS One, 13 (11) e0206207, e0206207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206207
Akazili, James, Chatio, Samuel, Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo, Agorinya, Isaiah, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Sankoh, Osman and Oduro, Abraham (2018). Informal workers' access to health care services: findings from a qualitative study in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 18 (1) 20. doi: 10.1186/s12914-018-0159-1
Akazili, James, Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo, Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Gyapong, John, Sankoh, Osman, Oduro, Abraham and McIntyre, Di (2017). Assessing the impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments prior to the uptake of the national health insurance scheme in Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 17 (1) 13. doi: 10.1186/s12914-017-0121-7
Akazili, James, McIntyre, Diane, Kanmiki, Edmund W., Gyapong, John, Oduro, Abraham, Sankoh, Osman and Ataguba, John E. (2017). Assessing the catastrophic effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments prior to the uptake of a nationwide health insurance scheme in Ghana. Global Health Action, 10 (1) 1289735. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1289735
Akazili, James, Chatio, Samuel, Achana, Fabian Sebastian, Oduro, Abraham, Kanmiki, Edmund W. and Baiden, Frank (2016). Factors influencing willingness to participate in new drug trial studies: A study among parents whose children were recruited into these trials in northern Ghana. BMC Research Notes, 9 (1) 139. doi: 10.1186/s13104-016-1951-4
Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Bawah, Ayaga A., Agorinya, Isaiah, Achana, Fabian S., Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Oduro, Abraham R., Phillips, James F. and Akazili, James (2014). Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana. Bmc International Health and Human Rights, 14 (1) 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-698x-14-24
Conference Papers
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Henry, Elizabeth, Bawah, Ayaga and Asuming, Patrick (2021). Understanding contraceptive use, method failure and discontinuation among adolescent and young women in poor urban settlements of Accra, Ghana. Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Online , 5-8 May 2021.
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Abiiro, Gilbert A. and Alatinga, Kennedy A. (2021). Migrant adolescent female head porter’s experience of out-of-pocket healthcare payments and impoverishment in Ghana. Population Association of America Annual Meeting , Online , 5-8 May 2021.
Kanmiki, Edmund W., Bawah, Ayaga A., Akazili, James, Awoonor-Williams, John Koku and Kassak, Kassem (2018). Moving towards universal health coverage: an assessment of unawareness of health insurance coverage status among reproductive-age women in rural northern Ghana. CUGH 9th Annual Conference, New York. NY, United States, 15 - 18 March, 2018. London, United Kingdom: The Lancet Publishing Group. doi: 10.1016/s2214-109x(18)30161-x