Research Projects (Current and Past)
- GHS Otupiri (Consultant) 2020-2023
Based on the successes achieved by the Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (R3M) project, the Ghana Health Service has received support to integrate Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) services into routine maternal health services
- 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.
- 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.
- GHS/UNFPA/unicef/USAID Otupiri (Consultant) 2020
Health development partners are supporting the Ghana Health Service to undertake the 2020 Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care needs assessment
- DFID (PO:0000033035) Otupiri (Consultant) 2019
DFID is supporting the Ghana Health Service to evaluate the effects of family planning implant training on the provision of implant services in Ghana.
- The WHO Otupiri (Consultant), 2018-2019
The WHO is supporting the Ghana Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service to develop national operational guidelines and standards for the provision of adolescent and youth-friendly health care services across the country
- The Netherlands government, Otupiri (Consultant), 2017-2021 NICHE/GHA/269 project. The Netherlands is supporting the Ghana Ministry of Health to implement training programs designed to improve the marketability of students in Nursing and Midwifery Training Colleges in the three northern regions of Ghana. The new curriculum adds on e-health and entrepreneurship skills and competences using PBL and CBL approaches.
- 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.
- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health/Ariadne Labs, Otupiri (PI), 2016-2019
Evaluation of the performance of the primary health care system in Ghana. A national survey of primary health care health facilities that a nationally representative sample women of reproductive age in Ghana utilize for health care.
- UNFPA-Ghana/Ghana Health Service, Otupiri (Consultant), 2014-2018
Ghana is a beneficiary of the Global Programme to enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security (GPRHCS). The annual facility-based surveys aim at providing data on contraceptives and essential maternal and reproductive health medicines as part of efforts aimed at enhancing the country’s capacity to achieve Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS).
- Government of Canada/Plan International, Otupiri (Consultant), 2018
Mid-term evaluation of the Strengthening Health Outcomes for Women and Children project (SHOW). The SHOW project is a 4-year gender-transformative initiative aimed at increasing the quality, availability, utilization and accountability of essential Maternal, Newborn and Child Health/Sexual and Reproductive Health (MNCH/SRH) services to reduce maternal and child mortality among marginalized and vulnerable women, specifically adolescent girls, and their children in targeted regions of Ghana
- Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Otupiri (Consultant), 2015
An initiative to partner traditional authorities in the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Volta regions to promote male involvement in family planning with the view to improving family planning uptake in Ghana
- 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
- 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
- USAID-Ghana, Otupiri (Consultant), 2012-2014 Assessing the effects of leadership training and performance-based grants on district level public health outcomes in Ghana. This USAID-Ghana funded project seeks to determine whether leadership training and performance-based funding to district health management teams result in improved public health outcomes
- 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
- University of Michigan-William Davidson Institute, Otupiri (PI), 2010-2014 Improving the management of health centres in Ghana: a randomized controlled trial on the effects of management coaching on health centre operations, staff motivation and patient services is funded by the University of Michigan-William Davidson Institute. We seek to test the hypothesis that associates significantly improved health outcomes at health centres with management coaching. This hypothesis is based on small-scale trials conducted in Rwanda
- Georgetown University, Otupiri (PI), 2011-2012 Introduction of Safe Day Methods (SDM) into family planning services in selected regions of Ghana sought to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of the introduction of Standard Days Methods using Cyclebeads into the family planning method mix in Ghana
- Columbia University-Mailman School of Public Health, Otupiri (co-PI), (2009-2012)
Systems improvement at district hospitals and regional training of emergency care (sidHARTe) is a Columbia University-Mailman School of Public Health-funded project. The project seeks to improve emergency care at district hospitals through training and short– to medium-term assistance, and mentoring by internationally acclaimed emergency care specialists and residents in two rural district hospitals in Ghana.
- Newmont-Ghana Gold Limited Otupiri (Consultant) 2009-2011 The Scaling up community integrated management of newborn and childhood illness in the Ahafo operational area project seeks to improve newborn and child health outcomes in the Ahafo area where Newmont-Ghana operates as a mining company
- UNICEF/UNFPA/WHO/AMDD/GHS Otupiri (Consultant) 2010
Needs assessment of emergency obstetric and newborn care in Ghana. UNICEF/UNFPA/WHO/AMDD and the Ghana Health Service funded this project. The project sought to use an adapted version of the assessment tools developed by Averting Maternal Deaths and Disability (AMDD-Columbia University) to appraise the current status of emergency obstetric and essential newborn care in Ghana as part of efforts to achieve MDGs 4 and 5 in the country.
- Johns Hopkins University Otupiri (Consultant) 2007-2008 Health policy and programme mapping exercise in the Upper East region and the rest of Ghana project sought to document child survival interventions in Ghana
- Ghana Civil Society Otupiri (Consultant) 2006-2007
Monitoring MDGs 4, 5 & 6 in Ghana is a Ghana Civil Society funded project that sought to provide evidence-base on Ghana’s progress towards achieving the key health-related MDGs. Data were collected from three (3) rural districts, one each from the three ecological zones of Ghana. Civil Society used the findings to educate communities as a means of empowering them to demand action from the Government of Ghana on the health-related MDGs.
- The National Council for Higher Education/TALIF Otupiri (co-PI) 2006
Improving medical education through Strategic Leadership at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology project was funded by the National Council for Higher Education/TALIF, Ghana to develop leadership skills in the provision of medical education at KNUST
- UNICEF/UNFPA Otupiri (co-PI) 2005
Accelerating improvements in maternal and newborn health in northern Ghana is funded by UNICEF/UNFPA with support from the Ghana Health Service to undertake a needs assessment of emergency obstetric and essential newborn care in the three northern regions of Ghana based on the high burden of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in these regions
- UNICEF-Ghana Otupiri (PI) 2003-2008
Accelerated child survival and development (ACSD) in northern Ghana Project is funded by UNICEF-Ghana. The idea is to use community-directed interventions to accelerate improvements in neonatal and child survival, growth and development in poor resource settings (Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions). Community-based agents are trained to manage uncomplicated cases of common childhood illnesses and to refer complications .
- WHO Otupiri (Field coordinator) 2004-2006
Assessment of the feasibility, acceptability and safety of Artesunate-Amodiaquine for home management of malaria in rural Ghana. Feasibility study to support the use of ACTs as first line medications for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria at the community level following the widespread resistance to chloroquine in Ghana. Funding from the WHO.
- WHO-TDR Otupiri (Field coordinator) 1999-2002 Feasibility studies on interventions to improve home management of childhood malaria in rural Ghana project sought to assess the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of the home management of fevers in a multi-country multi-centre study. The sites in Ghana were Gomoa, Ejisu-Juaben and Wa districts.
- LSHTM/DFID, UK Otupiri (Team member) 1998-2001
Improving the quality of obstetric care by using the ‘Near-Miss’ audit enquiry approach in Ghana. Project funded by LSHTM/DFID UK