Full Name: Mercy Abbey

Contact details : mercy.abbey@ghs.gov.gh , mercy.abbey@yahoo.com

Phone number : 0244 431 483 0264 83 9099

Positions held :

 

Current Position: Chief Health Research Officer

 

Acting Head, Research Department, RDD (2017 -2019)

 

Main current responsibilities: Capacity building/ mentoring early career researchers

Education: University and above:

2016: PhD: School of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Maastricht. The Netherlands

1992: MSc. (Econs) Social Studies, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, United Kingdom

1992: Research Training (Post graduate) University of Exeter, Institute of Population Studies, Exeter, UK

Recent short training: Last five years

2021: “Mentoring for Success”, Mentor training conducted by: Antoinette Oglethorpe (AO) Ltd in collaboration with and WHO/ HRP Alliance mentorship programme.

 

2020: Training in Research Integrity: Jointly organised by the N ew York University (School of Medicine) - University of Ghana (School of Public Health) Research Integrity Training Programme. Funded by the Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health.

 

2019: Capacity development training for “Leadership in Reproductive Health Research” a workshop run by the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, supported by WHO HRP Alliance – August 2019

 

2018: “ Priorities for infectious diseases research” workshop organized, by the University of Southampton, UK , at the Kempinski Hotel, Accra.

 

2017: Training in Health Administration and Management (HAM) held at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Greenhill

 

Research interest :

Global Health, Health Systems Research, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Social determinants of health, health and healthcare seeking behaviors, and design, implementation and evaluation of community - based health interventions

Ongoing Research works:

Rapid Assessment of Research Activity status among GHS staff within the Regions

 

 

Publications:

 

• Madaj BT, Gopalakrishnan S, Quach A, Filiaci S, Traore A, Bakusa D, Mdegela M, Yousofzai AW, Rahmanzai AJ, Kodindo G, Gami J-P, Rostand ND, Kessely H, Addo SA, Abbey M , Sapali M, Omar A, Ernest A, Mtandu R, Agossou A, Ketoh GK, Furtado N, Mangiaterra V, van den Broek N. Where is the ‘C’ in antenatal care and postnatal care: A multi-country survey of availability of antenatal and postnatal care in low- and middle-income settings. BJOG. 2022; 00:1–12. https://doi.org /10.1111/1471- 0528.17106

 

• Emmanuel Edum-Fotwe, Mercy Abbey , Ivy Osei, Abraham Hodgson. Experiences and Perceptions of Health Staff on Applying Information Technology for Health Data Management in Central Region, Ghana

http://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/publications/wp-18-224 January (2019)

 

• Mercy Abbey , Seth Kwaku Afagbedzi, Jane Afriyie-Mensah, David Antwi-Agyei, Kirchhoff Atengblee, Ebenezer Badoe, James Batchelor, Eric S. Donkor, Reuben Esena, Bamenla Q. Goka, Michael G. Head,*,Appiah-Korang Labi, Edmund Nartey, Isabella Sagoe-Moses and Edem M. A. Tette Pneumonia in Ghana—a need to raise the profile. Int Healthdoi:10.1093/inthealth/ihx062(2018)

 

• Mercy Abbey , L Kay Bartholomew, Margaret A. Chinbuah, Margaret Gyapong, John O. Gyapong, and Bart van den Borne: Development of a theory and evidence based program to promote community treatment of fevers in children under five in a rural district in Southern Ghana: An Intervention Mapping Approach. BMC Public Health (2017)

 

• M Abbey , MA Chinbuah, M Gyapong, LK Bartholomew, B van den Borne. Community perceptions and practices of treatment seeking for childhood pneumonia: a mixed methods study in a rural district, Ghana.. BMC Public Health (2016) (1), 848

 

• Mercy Abbey , L. Kay Bartholomew, Matilda Pappoe and Bart van den Borne. Treating fever in children under five: caregiver perceptions of community health worker services in Dangme West district, Ghana. International Health Advance Access published April 29, 2015

 

• Mercy Abbey , L. Kay Bartholomew, Justice Nonvignon, Margaret A. Chinbuah, Matilda Pappoe, Margaret Gyapong, John O. Gyapong, Constance Bart-Plange and Bart van den Borne. Factors related to retention of community health workers in a trial on community-based management of fever in children under 5 years in the Dangme West District of Ghana. International Health Journal. Advance Access published January 2014.

 

• MA Chinbuah, M Abbey , PA Kager, M Gyapong, J Nonvignon, P Ashitey, J Akpakli Assessment of the adherence of community health workers to dosing and referral guidelines for the management of fever in children under 5 years: a study in Dangme West District, Ghana. International Health. Advance Access published January 24, 2013

 

• MA Chinbuah, PA Kager, M Abbey , M Gyapong, E Awini, J Nonvignon, M Adjuik, M. Impact of community management of fever (using antimalarials with or without antibiotics) on childhood mortality: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Ghana. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 87 (5 Suppl), 11-20 (2012)

 

• J Nonvignon, MA Chinbuah, M Gyapong, M Abbey , E Awini, JO Gyapong, M Aikins. Is home management of fevers a cost ‐ effective way of reducing under ‐ five mortality in Africa? The case of a rural Ghanaian District. Tropical Medicine & International Health 17 (8), 951-957 2012.

 

• J Nonvignon, M K S Aikins, MA Chinbuah, M Abbey , M Gyapong, BNA Garshong, Saviour F. Gyapong J. Treatment choices for fevers in children under-five years in a rural Ghanaian district. Malaria Journal 2010, 9:188

 

• Lucia D'Ambruoso, Mercy Abbey , Julia Hussein. Please understand when I cry out in pain: women's accounts of maternity services during labour and delivery in Ghana. BMC Public Health 2005, 5:140 (22 December 2005)

 

• Hussein J, Hundley V, Bell J, Abbey M , Quansah Asare G, Graham WJ. How do women identify health professionals at birth in Ghana? Midwifery, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2005, Elsvier Pages 36-43

 

• J Hussein, J Bell, A Nazzar, M Abbey , S Adjei, W Graham. The skilled attendance index: proposal for a new measure of skilled attendance at delivery. Reproductive Health Matters 12 (24), 2004. pages 160-170

 

• Agyepong IA, Wellington EK, Abbey M . A comparative study of clinical and sociocultural aspects of anaemia among adolescent girls in rural Ghana. Acta Trop. 1997 May 30; 65(3):123-38.