Mrs. Charlotte Tawiah Agyemang

Organisation: Ghana Health Service Senior Research Fellow, KHRC

Position: Deputy ChiefResearch Officer/Research Fellow

Mrs. Agyemang is a Senior Research Fellow with postgraduate training in Public Health Nutrition. She has additional training in community and media communication by Burness Communications, U. S. A. and qualitative research methods and data analysis training from the Essex Summer School at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She has worked at the Kintampo Health Research Centre for 18 years.

Charlotte has over fifteen (15) years’ experience in community research and communication as well as maternal neonatal and child health (MNCH). Through the experience she had over the years working with women and children as well as Community members, Charlotte Developed an interest in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Mrs. Agyemang has been involved in several MNCH studies notable among them was the maternal mortality study (ObaapaVita) which sought to evaluate the impact of weekly vitamin A supplementation of women 15-45 years of age on mortality in seven districts in the Brong-Ahafo Region. She was also one of the Principal investigators for the WHO/SNL study, Newborn Home Intervention Study (NEWHINTS) which sought to evaluate the impact of routine home visits by community health workers on neonatal mortality in rural Ghana. Recently, she was the study Coordinator for the Ghana EMBRACE Implementation study in the middle belt of Ghana which aimed to develop a feasible and sustainable package of interventions to improve MNCH situation in rural settings through strengthening the Continuum of Care in Ghana. Currently Mrs. Agyemang is the Coordinator for Implementation Research activities at the Centre.