Grants/Funds Awarded
- CDC Foundation, Atlanta Otupiri (co-PI) 2020-2022
The KNUST-School of Public Health is partnering the CDC Foundation to undertake the Ghana Drowning project; the project will determine the burden and context of drowning in Ghana. (US$ 695,000.00)
- GHS/UNFPA Otupiri (Consultant) 2020-2021
The UNFPA is supporting the Ghana Health Service to undertake the fifth Reproductive Health Commodities and Services survey designed to provide evidence to support reproductive health commodity security in Ghana. (US$ 170.000)
- Government of Canada/Guttmacher Institute, Otupiri (PI), 2017-2020
Ghana Abortion Study. A nationally representative survey of women of reproductive age that will use five methods in three surveys to determine the burden of abortion and other reproductive health indicators in Ghana. (US$ 400,000)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Otupiri (PI), 2013-2020
This a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded multi-country project that seeks to track progress towards the Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) goal of an additional 120m new women and girl users of contraceptives. One hundred and twenty female resident enumerators have been trained to collect family planning data in 100 randomly selected enumeration areas across Ghana to provide national data for this population-based survey that is being replicated in 12 other countries (US$ 2.5m)
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Otupiri (PI), 2009-2017
A multi-country, multi-centre study on the relationship between family size, wealth and health that aims to provide evidence from seven (7) sites in different sub-Saharan African countries. The study sites in Ghana are Oforikrom and Asawase sub-metropolitan areas of Kumasi. The study will collect longitudinal data from an open-cohort of 800 randomly selected families (US$ 500,000).
- Johns Hopkins University, Otupiri (PI), 2003-2015 Enhancing reproductive health outcomes through research, training and advocacy. This project is designed to develop capacity and leadership in population and reproductive health with the view to improving reproductive health outcomes in Ghana. KNUST-School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are collaborating to implement the project (US$ 2.1m).