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Professor Augustine Ankomah(PhD)

Technical Advisor
Biography

Professor Augustine Ankomah is an international public health expert with over three decades of consultancy, applied research, and programme evaluation experience across Africa, Europe, and the United Kingdom. He has advised governments, UN agencies, and development partners on large-scale interventions in HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, family planning, and adolescent health.  

He has held senior leadership positions with Population Council Ghana, where he directed multi-million-dollar programmes, and with Population Services International in Nigeria and East Africa, where he managed, implemented and evaluated complex reproductive health and HIV prevention portfolios. His consultancy assignments have included national and international HIV strategy reviews, adolescent health assessments, family planning market analyses, and donor-funded project evaluations across sub-Saharan Africa. 

Alongside this, he has contributed to academia at universities in UK and the University of Ghana School of Public Health, combining rigorous research with practical field application. Widely published with over 70 peer-reviewed articles as well as multiple book chapters, and consultancy reports, his work experience focuses on sexual and reproductive health, maternal and adolescent health, HIV/AIDS prevention, behaviour change, and public health programme evaluation. 

Areas of Expertise
Public Health Research
Program Evaluation
Capacity Building
Health Policy
Education
  • PhD in Applied Population Research
  • MSc in Demography and Social Statistics
  • BA in Sociology
Selected Publications
Barriers to implementation of domestic violence prevention policies and programs in northwestern Ethiopia: A qualitative implementation research.
A Semahegn, K Torpey, A Manu, N Assefa, NA Agyeman, A Ankomah (2025)
PLOS Global Public Health 5(3): e0004266
Maternal, physical and social characteristics that influence the occurrence of preeclampsia/eclampsia and hemorrhage in Eastern Region of Ghana. A prospective cohort study.
JA Avoka, EJ Dun-Dery, A Ankomah, A Ohemeng, I Seidu and F Dun-Dery (2025)
SAGE Open Medicine Volume 13: 1–11
Use of chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1% gel for umbilical cord care in selected regions in Northern Ghana: Qualitative perspectives of key stakeholders.
Duah, D. P. L., Adjieteh, A. A., Adjei, S., Fuseini, K., Obeng-Dwamena, A. D., Addo-Yobo, J., & Ankomah, A. (2024).
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24(1), 851. 
What emerging adults say about the appropriateness of sexual and reproductive health programmes: evidence from a suburb in Accra, Ghana.
LR Sowah, AAE Biney, DY Atiglo, D Badasu, AA Boateng, KO Sarfoh and A Ankomah (2024)
Frontiers in Reproductive Health 6:1459825.
HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among high-risk population in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis; AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
H Nagai, A Ankomah, K Fuseini, A. Adiibokah, A Semahegn, Henry Tagoe (2024)
AIDS Patient Care and STDs; 38(2)
Biobehavioral Survey using Time location sampling among female sex workers living in Ghana in 2020.
S Dery, C Guure, SK Afagbedzi, A Ankomah, WK Ampofo, K Atuahene, E Kenu, SS Weir, W Tun, D Arhinful, K Torpey (2024)
Frontiers in Public Health 12:1137799
Socio-cultural norms in the local food system and potential implications for women’s dietary quality in rural northern Ghana.
S Zakariah-Akoto, M Armar-Klemesu, A Ankomah, K Torpey, R Aryeetey (2024)
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development; 24(1): 25052-25077
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