Dr. Arti Singh

Senior Lecturer

Dept: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health,
KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
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Research Areas/Interests

Non-communicable diseases; tobacco control; community engagement' community-based participatory research; genomic research.   ...~more

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Publications

    1. Lwin KS, Koon AD, Rasanathan K,…Singh A. et al. Framing health taxes: learning from low- income and middle- income countries. BMJ Glob Health 2023;0:e012955. doi:10.1136. (Journal impact factor 8.1)
    2. Singh A, Smith K, Hellowell M, et al (2023). An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana. BMJ Global Health 8:e012054. (Journal impact factor 8.1
    3. Singh A, Ross H, Dobbie F, et al (2023). Extent of illicit cigarette market from single stick sales in Ghana: findings from a cross-sectional survey. BMJ Open; 13:e062476. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2022-062476 (Journal impact factor 2.9)
    4. Singh A, Dobbie F, Logo DD, et al. (2021) Advancing tobacco control research in Ghana: findings from a meeting with key stakeholders. Journal of Global Health Reports, 5:e2021029. doi:10.29392/001c.2223
    5. Singh A, Logo DD, Dobbie F et al. (2021). Tobacco use and COVID-19 in Ghana – generating evidence to support policy and practice. Journal of Global Health Reports (February 2021)
    6. Singh A, Dobbie F, Kinnunen T. et al. (2021). Adherence to smoke-free policies in Ghana: Findings from a cross-sectional survey of hospitality venue owners and staff. Tob. Prev. Cessation 2021; 7 (January): 4 https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/131058
    7. Sarfo, S, Singh A, Tagge R., et al. (2020). Duration of antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV and incidence of hypertension in Ghana. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension: https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.14088
    8. Singh A, Okello G, Semple S. et al. (2020). Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in hospitality settings in Ghana: Evidence of Changes since Implementation of Smoke-Free Legislation. Tobacco Induced Diseases; 18 (May): 44DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/120934
    9. Singh, Arti, Owusu-Dabo, Ellis, Mdege, Noreen et al. (2020). A situational analysis of tobacco control in Ghana: progress, opportunities and challenges. Journal of Global Health Reports.10.29392/001c.12260. doi:10.29392/001c.122
    10. Akinyemi R, Jenkins C, Nichols M., Singh A, et al. (2020). Unravelling the ethical, legal, and social implications of neurobiobanking and stroke genomic research in Africa: A study protocol of the African Neurobiobank for Precision Stroke Medicine ELSI Project. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19: 1–13 https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920923194
    11. Singh A & Nichols M. A Nurse-led Education and Engagement Study for Diabetes Care in Sub-Saharan Africa (NEEDS) (2020): Protocol for a Mixed Methodological Global Health Study (2020). JMIR Research Protocols JMIR Res Protoc; 9(6):e15408 DOI: 2196/15408
    12. Nichols, Michelle, Singh, Arti, Sarfo, Fred, et al. (2019). Post-intervention qualitative assessment of mobile health technology to manage hypertension among Ghanaian stroke survivors. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 406. 116462. 10.1016/j.jns.116462. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2019.116462
    13. Sarfo, FS, Nichols, M, Singh, A, et al. (2019). Characteristics of hypertension among people living with HIV in Ghana: Impact of new hypertension guideline. J Clin Hypertension; 21: 838– 850. https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13561
    14. Sarfo S, Berchie P, Singh A. et al. (2019). Prevalence, Trajectory, And Predictors of Post-Stroke Fatigue Among Ghanaians. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Vol. 28 (5); 1353-1361 DOI: 1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2019.02.002
    15. Jenkins C., Ovibiagele B., Arulogun O., Singh A., et al. (2018) Knowledge, attitudes and practices related to stroke in Ghana and Nigeria: a SIREN call to action. Plos One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206548
    16. Akinyemi R., Sarfo S., Akinyemi O., Singh A., (2018) Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of West Africans on Genetic Studies of Stroke: Evidence from the SIREN Study. International Journal of Stroke https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493018790059
    17. Carolyn Jenkins, Oyedunni Arulogun, Arti Singh et al (2016). Stroke Investigative Research andEducation Network: Community Engagement and Outreach within Phenomics. Health Education & Behaviour; Vol. 43(1S) 82S–92S 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198116634082
    18. Singh A., Jenkins C., Calys-Tagoe B., et al. Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network: Public Outreach and Engagement. Journal of Community Medicine and Health Education. J Community Med Health Educ 7: 518. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000518 DOI: 4172/2161-0711.1000518
    19. Michelle Nichols, Fred Sarfo, Arti Singh et al. (2017) Assessing mobile health capacity and task shifting strategies to improve hypertension among Ghanaian stroke survivors. American Journal of Medical Sciences. DOI: 1016/j.amjms.2017.08.005
    20. Arti Singh, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, John Britton & Laura Jones (2014). 'Pictures don't lie, seeing is believing": Exploring Attitudes to the Introduction of Pictorial Warnings on Cigarette Packs in Ghana. Nicotine & Tobacco Research: ntu127v1-ntu121. 5. 2013 org/10.1093/ntr/ntu127
    21. Ulrike Sauer, Arti Singh, Punam Rubenstein & Rudiger Pittrof (2013). Do Women requesting only contraception find attendance at an integrated sexual health clinic more stigmatizing than attendance at a family planning clinic? International Journal of Women's Health; 5: 57-64 doi: 2147/IJWH.S39895
    22. A. Annan, A. Singh, J.A. Dogbe, D. Asante & E. Owusu-Dabo (2013). Health seeking behavior of tuberculosis patients and related factors in the Central region of Ghana. Journal of Science and Technology; 33, 3: 27-38 27 6. DOI: 10.4314/just.v33i3.4
    23. Sarfo, Fred, Ovbiagele, Bruce, Gebregziabher, Mulugeta et al. (2020). Unraveling the risk factors for spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage among West Africans. Neurology. 94. 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009056. 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009056.
    24. Logo D., Kyei-Fareid S., Oppong F. et al. (2020). Shisha use among the youth in Ghana: Lessons from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2017. Tobacco Induced Diseases; 18 (May):47DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/120937
    25. Sarfo S, Nichols M, Agyei B., Singh A., et al. (2019) Burden of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis and vascular risk factors among people living with HIV in Ghana. Journal of the Neurological Sciences (2019); 397; 103-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2018.12.026
    26. Sarfo S., Treiber F., Gebregziabher M., Adamu Sheila., et al. Phone-based Intervention for Blood Pressure control among Ghanaian Stroke Survivors: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. International Journal of Stroke http://doi.org/10.1177/1747493018816423
    27. Mayowa O., et al. (2018) Dominant modifiable risk factors for stroke in Ghana and Nigeria (SIREN): a case-control study. Lancet Global Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214109X(18)30002-
    28. Sarfo S., Treiber F., Gebregziabher M., et al. (2017) PINGS (Phone-Based Intervention Under Nurse Guidance After Stroke) Interim Results of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke; DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.019591
    29. Sarfo S., Jenkins C., Singh A., et al. (2017) Post-stroke depression in Ghana. Journal of the Neurological Sciences , Volume 379 , 261 – 265. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2017.06.032
    30. Sarfo FS, Jenkins C, Mensah NA, Saulson R, Sarfo-Kantanka O, Singh A, Nichols M, et al. (2017) Prevalence and Predictors of Sleep Apnea Risk among Ghanaian Stroke Survivors. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 02.027. [PMID: 28283367]
    31. Sarfo FS, Nichols M, Qanungo S, Teklehaimanot A, Singh A, Mensah N et al (2017). Stroke-related stigma among West Africans: Patterns and predictors. Journal of the Neurological Sciences; Vol. 375, 15: 270–274 doi: 1016/j.jns.2017.02.018
    32. Fred Stephen Sarfo, Frank Treiber, Carolyn Jenkins, Sachin Patel, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Arti Singh, Osei Sarfo Kantanka et al. Phone-based Intervention under Nurse Guidance after Stroke (PINGS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 17:436 DOI 10.1186/s13063-016-1557-0 2.
    33. Akpalu A, Sarfo FS, et al (2015). Phenotyping Stroke in sub-Saharan Africa: Stroke InvestigativeResearch and Education Network (SIREN) Phenomics Protocol. International Journal of Stroke. Neuroepidemiology; 45:73–82 DOI: 10.1159/000437372. 4
    34. Sanjeev Singh, Arti Singh, Anbarasu Annamalai & Gaurav Goel (2013). Anesthesiology as a Career Visa-Vis Professional satisfaction in Developing countries. Journal of Anesthesia and Clinical research; 4: 304
    35. Sanjeev Singh, Edwin Ferguson Laing, William Kwame Boakye Ansah Owiredu, Arti Singh et al. A study of the efficacy of cardiac antidysrhythmic drugs in attenuating hemodynamic responses to laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation in the Black population. Journal of Anesthesiology. Vol.1, No. 1, 2013; pp. 1-8 2. DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000326
    36. Bhavana Singh, Arti Singh, Yaw Bio (2012). Determinants of Immunization in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region, Ghana, European Journal of Scientific Research; 77, 1: 77-94. 3.
    37. Yaw bio, Bhavana Singh, Arti Singh & Neelum Singh (2012). HIV test for pregnant women- Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) –EJSR; 76, 1: 143-155
    38. Singh, E.F. Laing, W.K.B.A. Owiredu and A. Singh (2012). Attenuation of Cardiovascular response by ß-blocker Esmolol during laryngoscopy and intubation- Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences;1, 4: 27-33.

     

     

     

     

     

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