Dr. EvelynSakeah

Job Title: Research Officer

Organisation: Navrongo Health Research Centre

Dr. Sakeah is currently a Deputy Chief Health Research Officer of the Navrongo Health Research Centre, under the Ghana Health Service, Ghana. She received her Master of Public Health degree in 2004 and graduated in 2014 with a doctoral degree in Public Health. Dr. Sakeah took up a postdoctoral research fellowship (WHO-TDR) based at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in the Upper East Region, Ghana, 2014-2016. Since 1998, Evelyn has worked on a number of large-scale projects that included the Community Health and Family Planning Project, the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Intervention Study. Dr. Sakeah was part of a team that developed and implemented the intervention program to end FGM in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana. This was an initiative under the sponsorship of the United States Agency for International Development. Dr. Sakeah was also a Co-Principal Investigator for the “Home Management of Malaria in Under-Fives in Urban Settings of northern Ghana”, a Principal Investigator for the Study on “Best Practices of Community Involvement in the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Initiative in Ghana”,a Co-PI on the study on “Improving the Quality of Data on Maternal and Newborn Health Survey” at INDEPTH centres. She is currently a Co-PI on a project on “Improving Community-based Primary Health Care through CHPS Strengthening (CHPS+) in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Dr. Sakeah has a number of publications and her research interests include: Maternal and Child Health, Women’s Health, Malaria Research, Implementation Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Survey Research Design and Implementation, Health Systems Operations Research and Qualitative Research.