Livingstone Asem

Host institution: University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana

Project title: Mathematical Modelling of Malaria Intervention on the Reduction of Malaria in Pregnancy in Ghana

Biography:

Dr Livingstone Asem is a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, Fred N Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Science, Ghana. Before joining the University as full-time faculty in December 2019, he was a part-time lecturer since April 2014. He teaches Public Health Seminar; Healthcare Systems in Ghana; Primary Health Care and Monitoring & Evaluation of Health Programmes at the undergraduate level. At the postgraduate level, he contributes in Advance Biostatistics, Foundations of Geographic Information Systems and Monitoring and Evaluation Cases Studies.

Dr Livingstone is currently a PhD holder with a specialization in Health Policy and Management from the University of Ghana. He holds an MSc in Health Informatics from the University of Ghana, a BSc. In Information and Communication Technology from the Presbyterian University College of Ghana and a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Statistics from Kumasi Technical University (formerly Kumasi Polytechnic), Ghana.

Dr. Asem before joining UHAS has worked with the Volta Regional Health Directorate as the Regional Health Information Officer. During his period of work at the Regional Health Directorate, he was actively involved in managing data, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating systems as well as conducting program evaluations at the district, regional and national levels.

He has in the past deployed, managed and implemented District Health Information Management System (DHIMS2) databases to track the flow of information within complex, multi-layered, geographically dispersed health service provision areas, placing a specific emphasis on data quality. He has also conducted numerous data quality audits for Policy Planning Monitoring & Evaluation Division and Malaria Control Programme of the Ghana Health Service. He possesses advanced knowledge on Geographic Information System use for disease risk mapping and information dissemination. He is a very good user of statistical packages such as R, SPSS, Stata, Epinfo, Spectrum, ARGIS and QGIS, he has in the past assisted to map out disease hotspots across the Volta Region for decision making in the health sector.

He has interest in contemporary health policy issues, including public health interventions, monitoring and evaluation, process assessment, data quality assessment, socio-economic effect on health outcomes, and the adoption of electronic health application in data management. He has more than ten (10) publications in peer-reviewed journals

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