Daniel Azongo

Daniel is a Senior Research Officer at the Navrongo Health Research Centre with over 10 years working experience on longitudinal population-based research in Northern Ghana. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Development Studies (2001) and a Master’s of Science (in Medicine) Population–Based Field Epidemiology from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2008). 

He joined the Centre in (1997) as a field worker on the Panel survey project which was the research arm of the Community Health and Family Planning project. After obtaining his first degree, Daniel was employed as a Research Assistant in 2002 and has since been working with the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS). The HDSS-established in July 1993, is a longitudinal population tracking system that monitors the population dynamics of the two Kassena-Nankana Districts of the Upper East Region of Ghana and serves as an essential platform for launching health research in Northern Ghana. 

Daniel is the current Head of the HDSS with major task of directing field activities, generating data output, writing of technical reports, manuscripts and proposals. He has been involved in the implementation of various projects including; the World Bank-sponsored Maternal Health Study, UNICEF Evaluation programme (HIRD, iCCM and LLN) in the three regions of Northern Ghana 2012-2013, the Ghana Essential Health Intervention (GEHIP) Project in the Upper East Region of Ghana, funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, etc. 

Daniel is broadly interested in health systems and implementation research, maternal and newborn health and geographic information systems. His current research focus is on the epidemiology and drivers of non-communicable diseases in Northern Ghana. He is a member of the INDEPTH-network Health Systems and Maternal and Newborn Health working groups. 

He has published in peer reviewed journals