Full Name: Dr James Akazili

Contact details: email / phone number:

jakazili@gmail.com/james.akazilighsmail.org 0209691313/0244834435

 

Relevant Positions held: Relevant Professional and Academic

Research Fellow/Deputy Director/Senior Lecturer

 

Education: University and above ,

PhD at the University of Cape Town, South Africa,

Postdoc, University of Michigan, USA

 

Recent short training: Last five years:

Research ethics and integrity fellowship, University of Ghana/University of New York

 

Research interest:

Health care financing, equity and efficiency in health care system, Universal health care and economic evaluation

 

Ongoing Research works:

NCD and Universal Health Coverage and essential health package

 

Publications:

  1. in general service readiness of primary health care facilities in Ghana: Health policy and equity implications towards the attainment of Universal Health Coverage. PLoS ONE 17(6): e0269546. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0269546.
  2. Agorinya IA. Dalaba MA, Mensah NK, Chatio S, My LL, Dessie Y, Sumboh J, Flores G, Edejer TT, Ross A, Tediosi F, Akazili J (2021) Challenges and experiences in linking community level reported out-of-pocket health expenditures to health provider recorded health expenditures: Experience from the iHOPE project in Northern Ghana. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256910. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256910

  3. Agorinya IA. Ross A, Flores G, Edejer TT, Dalaba MA, Mensah NK, My LL, Dessie Y, Sumboh J Oduro AR, Akazili J, Tediosi F (2021) Effect of specificity of health expenditure questions in the measurement of out-of-pocket health expenditure: evidence from field experimental study in Ghana: BMJ Open;11:e042562. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042562

  4. James Akazili , Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, Dominic Anaseba, Veloshnee Govender, Georges Danhoundo & Augustina Koduah (2020). Challenges and facilitators to the provision of sexual, reproductive health and rights services in Ghana. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2020.1846247

  5. John E Ataguba, Hyacinth E Ichoku, Chijioke O Nwosu , James Akazili (2020) An Alternative Approach to Decomposing the Redistributive Effect of Health Financing Between and Within Groups Using the Gini Index: The Case of Out-of-Pocket Payments in Nigeria, Appl Health Econ Health Policy; 18(6):747-757. doi: 10.1007/s40258-019-00520-4.

  6. Kwarteng A , Akazili J , Welaga P , Dalinjong PA , Asante KP, Sarpong D, Arthur S , Bangha M , Jane Goudge J, Sankoh O (2020), The state of enrollment on the National Health Insurance Scheme in rural Ghana after eight years of implementation: International Journal for Equity in Health 19:4

  7. Kanmiki EW , James Akazili , Ayaga A. Bawah, et al (2019) : Unawareness of health insurance coverage status among reproductive-aged women in Ghana: implications for achieving universal health coverage. Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-019-0190-4

  8. Kanmiki EW , James Akazili, Ayaga A. Bawah et al (2019). Cost of implementing a community-based health care strengthening program: the case of the Ghana Essential Health Intervention Program in northern Ghana. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0211956. PLoS ONE 14(2): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211956

  9. Kanmiki EW, Bawah AA James JF, Awoonor-Williams JK, Kachur PS, Asuming PO, Akazili J (2019) : Out-of-pocket payment for primary healthcare in the era of national health insurance: Evidence from northern Ghana PLoSONE 14(8) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221146

  10. Ayaga A. Bawah*, John Koku Awoonor-Williams Edmund W. Kanmiki, Sebastian F. Achana,

James Akazili, James F. Phillips (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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218025

  1. Kanmiki EW , Awoonor-Williams JK, Phllips JF, Kachur SP, Achana SF, Akazili J, . Bawah AA (2019), Socio-economic and demographic disparities in ownership and utilization of insecticide treated bed-net for preventing malaria among reproductive-aged women in northern Ghana : PLoS ONE 14(1): e0211365. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211365

  2. Ayanore MA , Pavlova M , Kugbey N, Fusheini A , Tetteh J , Ayanore AA , Akazili J , Adongo PA and Groot W (2019) Health insurance coverage, type of payment for health insurance, and reasons for not being insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana, Health Economics Review 9:39

  3. Akazili J, Chatio S, Ataguba EOJ, Agorinya I, Kanmiki EW, Sankoh O, Oduro A (2018) Informal workers’ access to health care service: Findings from a qualitative study in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights 18:20

  4. Agorinya IA, Kanmiki EW, Nonterah EA, Tediosi F, Akazili J , Welaga P, et al. (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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206207

  5. Kanmiki EW *, Bawah AA, Akazili J , Awoonor-Williams JK, Kassak K (2018): Moving towards universal health coverage: an assessment of unawareness of health insurance coverage status among reproductive-age women in rural northern Ghana. The Lancet Global Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30161-X

  6. Dalinjong PA, Welaga P, Akazili J,  Kwarteng A, Bangha M, Oduro A, Sankoh O, Goudge J (2017) The association between health insurance status and utilization of health services in rural Northern Ghana: evidence from the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme. Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, 36 :42

  7. McLaren ZM, Sharp A, Hessburg JP, Sarvestani AS, Parker E, Akazili J, Johnson TRB, Sienko KH (2017) Cost effectiveness of medical devices to diagnose pre-eclampsia in low-resource settings. Development Engineering 2 99-106

  8. Norris SA, Daar A, Balasubramanian D, Byass P, Kimani-Murage E, Macnab A, Pauw C, Singhal A, Yajnik C, Akazili J , Levitt N, Maatoug J, Mkhwanazi N, Moore SE, Nyirenda M, Pulliam JRC, Rochat T, Said-Mohamed R, Seedat S, Sobngwi E , Tomlinson M, Toska E & Schalkwyk CV(2017) Understanding and acting on the developmental origins of health and disease in Africa would improve health across generations. Global Health Action 10:1

  9. Akazili J , D McIntyre, E Kanmiki, J Gyapong, O Sankoh, J Ataguba (2017) Assessing the impoverishment effects of Out-of-Pocket health care payment prior to the uptake of a nationwide health insurance scheme in Ghana. BMC International Health and human rights 17:13

  10. Akazili J, D McIntyre, E Kanmiki, J Gyapong, A Oduro, O Sankoh, J Ataguba (2017) Assessing the catastrophic effects of Out-of-Pocket health care payment prior to the uptake of a nationwide health insurance scheme in Ghana, Global Health action 2017;10:1289735

  11. Akazili J , Chatio S, Achana FS, Oduro A, Kanmiki E, Baiden F (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, 9:139

  12. Awoonor-Williams JK, Tindana P, Dalinjong PA, Nartey H, Akazili J (2016). Does the operations of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana align with the goals of Primary Health Care? Perspectives of key stakeholders in northern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights 16 : 21

  13. Chatio S., Baiden F., Achana F, Oduro A. Akazili J (2016). Knowledge and Perceptions about Clinical Trials and the Use of Biomedical Samples: Findings from a Qualitative Study in Rural Northern Ghana. PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0152854

  14. Oduro AR, Maya ET, Akazili J , Baiden F, Koram K, Bojang K (2016). Monitoring malaria using health facility based surveys: challenges and limitations, BMC Public Health 2016 04 21;16:354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2858-7

  15. Kaba RH, Nketiah-Amponsah E, Akazili J , Spieker N, Arhnful DK, Rinke TF, (2015). Efficiency of private and public primary health facilities accredited by the National Health Insurance Authority in Ghana. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2015; 13: 23

  16. Baiden F., Akazili J., Chatio S., Achana F, Oduro A., Ravinetto R., Hodgson A. 2015 Should consent forms used in clinical trials be translated into the local dialects? A survey among past participants in rural Ghana. Clin Trials   1740774515609290

  17. Fernandes S., Sicuri E, Kayentao K., Eijk MA., Hill J., Webster J., Were V., Akazili J., Madanitsa M., Kuile FT., Hanson K (2015) Cost-effectiveness of two versus three or more doses of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a modeling study of meta-analysis and cost data. The Lancet Global Health 3(3) e143-53

  18. Dalinjong PA, Welaga P, Azongo DK, Chatio S, Anaseba D, Kondayire F, Akazili J , Debpuur C, Oduro AR (2015) A retrospective analysis of the association between tobacco smoking and deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana. Tobacco Induced Diseases 13 (1)

  19. Akazili, J, et al (2014) Is Ghana's Pro-Poor Health Insurance Scheme Really for the Poor? Evidence from Northern Ghana, BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:637 doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0637-7

  20. Jehu-Appiah C ,   Sekidde S ,   Adjuik M ,   Akazili J ,   Almeida SA ,   Nyonator F ,   Baltussen R ,   Zere EA, Kirigia JM (2014) Ownership and technical efficiency of hospitals: evidence from Ghana using data envelopment analysis, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation ,   12 : 9

  21. Kanmiki EW ,   Bawah AA ,   Agorinya I ,   Achana FS,   Awoonor-williams JK ,   Abraham AR ,   Phillips J,   Akazili J (2014) Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana. BMC International Health and Human Rights 14 : 24

  22. Anto F, Asoala V, Adjuik M, Anyorigiya T, Oduro A, Akazili J , Akweongo P, Ayivor P, Bimi L3 Hodgson (2014) Childhood Activities and Schistosomiasis Infection in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana. J infectious Diseases and Therapy 2 :14

  23. Abagale MD, Akazili J , Welaga P, Dalaba M, Luu Y, Abagale S, Oduro A (2013) The Effects of Road traffic Accidents on Society. The case of the Kassena-Nankana districts, Ghana: A quantitive survey. The Lancet 381: S3 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61257-X ·  

  24. Anto F, Asoala V, Adjuik M, Anyorigiya T, Oduro A, Akazili J , Akweongo P, Ayivor P, Bimi L3 Hodgson (A 2013) Water Contact Activities and Prevalence of Schistosomiasis Infection among School-age Children in Communities along an Irrigation Scheme in Rural Northern Ghana, J Bact Parasitol 4 :4

  25. Akazili J , B Garshong, M Aikins, J Gyapong, D McIntyre (2012) Progressivity of health care financing and incidence of service benefits in Ghana , Health Policy and Planning 27: 13-22

  26. Mills A, Ataguba JE, Akazili J , Borghi J, Garshong B, Makawia S, Mtei G, Harris B, Macha J, Meheus F, McIntyre D (2012) Equity in financing and use of health care in Ghana, South Africa, and Tanzania: implications for paths to universal coverage. The Lancet 6736(12)60357-2

  27. Kirigia J, Zere E, Akazili J ( 2012) National health financing policy in Eritrea: a survey of preliminary considerations BMC International Health and Human Rights 2012, 12:16

  28. Zere E, JM Kirigia, S Duale, J Akazili (2012) Inequities in maternal and child health outcomes and interventions in Ghana, BMC Public Health ,   12 : 252 [Highly Accessed]

  29. Macha J, B Harris, B Garshong, JE Ataguba, J Akazili , A Kuwawenaruwa, J Borghi (2012) Factors influencing the burden of health care financing and the distribution of health care benefits in Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa, Health Policy and Planning 27: 46-54

  30. Goudge J, Akazili J , Ataguba J, Kuwawenaruwa A, Borghi J, Harris B, Mills A (2012) Social solidarity and willingness to tolerate risk- and income-related cross-subsidies within health insurance: experiences from Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa, Health Policy and Planning 27: 55-63

  31. Akazili J, J. Gyapong, D. McIntyre (2011), Who pays for health care in Ghana, International Journal for Equity in Health 10:26

  32. Akazili J. & G. Mooney (2011) Social health insurance : to each according to his needs; from each according to his means, but what might that  mean ? International Journal for Hlth Services 41 (4):679-90.

  33. Akazili J ., Doctor HV., Abokyi L., Hodgson A., Phillips J (2011) Is there is any relationship between antenatal care and place of delivery? Findings from rural northern Ghana, Afr J Health Sci. 18 :62-73

  34. Ataguba J, J. Akazili , McIntyre, D (2011) Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys. International Journal for Equity in Health 10 :48  

  35. Ataguba EO and J, Akazili J (2010) Health Care financing in South Africa: Moving towards Universal Coverage, Continuing Medical Education (CME) 28: 2

  36. Aikins M., . Armah G., Akazili J ., H odgson A. (2010) Hospital Health Care Cost of Diarrhoeal Disease in Northern Ghana, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 202 (Suppl. 1)

  37. Borghi J, Ataguba J, Mtei G, Akazili J , Meheus F, Rehnberg C, McIntyre D(2009), Methodological challenges in evaluating health care financing equity in data-poor contexts: Lessons from Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania” In: Advance in Health Economics and health service. Eds. Kara Hanson and Dov Chernichovsky, Vol. 21, Page 133-156, Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN: 0731-2199 ( book chapter )

  38. McIntyre D, Garshong B, Mtei G, Meheus F, Thiede M, Akazili J , Ally M, Aikins M, Mulligan J, Goudge J (2008): Beyond fragmentation and towards universal coverage: insights from Ghana, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania, Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 86 (11)

  39. Akazili J ., Adjuik M, Jehu-Appiah C & Zere E (2008) Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure the extent of Technical Efficiency of Public Health Centres in Ghana, BMC International Health and Human Rights 8 : 11

  40. Akazili J . M. Ajuik, S. Chatio, E. Kanyomse, A. Hodgson, M. Aikins, J. Gyapong (2008) What are the Technical and Allocative Efficiencies of Public Health Centres in Ghana? Ghana Medical Journal , 42: 4

  41. Akazili J. Aikins M. Binka F (2007): Malaria Treatment in Northern Ghana: What is the cost of malaria per case? Afr J Health Sci ; 14:70-79.

  42. Debpuur, C, Wontuo P, Akazili J and Nyarko P. (2005). “Health inequities in the Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana.” In Measuring Health Equity in Small Areas: Findings from Demographic Surveillance Systems. Eds. Don de Savigny, Cornelius Debpuur, E. Mwageni, R. Nathan, Abdur Razzaque, and Philip Setel. INDEPTH Network. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 0-7546-4494-4 ( book chapter )