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I am a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases Research (CNCDR) at the Institute of Health Research (IHR), University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, Ghana. I am an experienced public health researcher and health economist with over 20 years of experience in health research, economic evaluation, implementation science and health systems research.
Prior to joining UHAS in 2019, I worked for over 15 years at the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC), one of Ghana's leading health research institutions. Over the course of my career, I have contributed to and led research addressing a wide range of public health priorities, including non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, malaria, healthcare financing, clean cookstove interventions, implementation research and health systems strengthening.
I hold a PhD in Public Health, specialising in Health Economics, from the University of Heidelberg, Germany; a Master of Public Health in Health Economics from the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Geography from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. My multidisciplinary training enables me to integrate economic, epidemiological, health systems and implementation perspectives to address complex public health challenges and generate rigorous evidence to inform policy and practice.
I also contribute to the training and mentorship of the next generation of public health professionals through teaching at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, and the School of Pharmacy at UHAS. I am committed to strengthening research capacity and fostering multidisciplinary collaborations that support the generation and uptake of evidence for improved health outcomes.
I have over 80 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and have presented my research at numerous national and international conferences. I also serve as a peer reviewer for several academic and scientific journals.
As a trained Health Economist, my core areas of expertise include economic evaluation of health interventions and programmes, cost-effectiveness and cost-of-illness analyses, health financing, implementation research, health systems research and the translation of research evidence into policy and practice. My research is particularly focused on generating rigorous, context-relevant evidence to improve the efficiency, equity, quality and sustainability of health systems, particularly in resource-constrained settings.
Research links
ORCID ID: Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba on ORCID
Google scholar: Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba on Google Scholar
Research Gate: Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba @ Research Gate
Pubmed: Maxwell Ayindenaba Dalaba @ Pubmed
Director
Director of Institute of Health Research (IHR)
Institute of Health Research (IHR)
English, British
Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases(CNCDR)
Senior Member (Academic)
Specialization
Economic Evaluation Of Health Care Interventions | Cost-Effectiveness And Cost-Of-Illness Analyses | Implementation Research | Healthcare Financing | Health Systems Research
Education
Projects
Parental Care Practices And Childhood Development In Ghana
Project Role
Principal Investigator
Funder
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX).
Amount
USD14,900
Start Date
End Date
Enhancing Infection Prevention And Rational Antibiotic Use For Neonatal Infection In Four Health Facilities In The Volta Region, Ghana
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions
Amount
USD 632,987.61
Start Date
End Date
Cost Assessment Study Of Milabtm Mal Digital Microscope For Malaria Diagnosis In Ghana
Project Role
Principal Investigator
Funder
Noul Inc., South Korea
Amount
USD25,000
Start Date
End Date
Implementation Research To Improve Schistosomiasis Control In Communities Along The Volta Basin
Project Role
Co- Investigator
Funder
Volta River Authority, Ghana
Amount
GH¢ 1,150,447.35
Start Date
End Date
Building Capacity To Address Implementation Challenges For Sustainable Access And Delivery Of New Vaccines In Ghana (Saving Project)
Project Role
Embedded Scientist
Funder
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
Amount
€ 2,100,000
Start Date
End Date
Assessment Of The Performance Of The Nhis Family Planning Benefit Package And Its Clinical Quality Expectations
Project Role
Co- Investigator
Funder
PROPEL Health Consortium/ Palladium/USAID
Amount
USD 71,445.00
Start Date
Caring For Providers To Improve Patient Experience (Cpipe) Study
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
NIH/NICHD
Amount
USD 3,091,066
Start Date
End Date
Improving Hypertension Management Using Motivational Interviewing Approach In Rural Communities In Yilo Krobo Municipality Of Ghana
Project Role
Co- Investigator
Funder
RSTMH
Amount
£ 5,000
Start Date
End Date
Exploring Patterns Of Non-Participation Across Multiple Health Campaigns: An Exploratory Study Using Qualitative Methods In Ghana
Project Role
Co- Investigator
Funder
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition at the Task Force for Global Health, USA
Amount
CAD 52,389.22
Start Date
End Date
Epidemiology And The Economic Burden Of Snake Bites In Three Rural Districts In Ghana
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
RSTMH in partnership with the NIHR
Amount
£ 5,000
Start Date
End Date
The Fast Package Transition To Scale Project: Improving Women’s Health By Reducing Morbidity From Female Genital Schistosomiasis In Ghana (Fast Project)
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
Grand Challenges Canada
Amount
CAD 183,000
Start Date
End Date
The Socio-Economic And Health Effects Of Covid-19 Among Vulnerable Populations: Evidence From The Ashanti And Volta Regions Of Ghana
Project Role
Co- Investigator
Funder
WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Health Systems Research
Amount
US$ 20,000
Start Date
End Date
Improved Nutrition Preconception, During Pregnancy And Postpartum
Project Role
Co- Investigator.
Funder
National Institute for Health Research
Amount
£ 350,000
Start Date
End Date
Slicing The Exposure Pie: Modelling Personal Hap Exposure Attributable To Multiple Sources In Ghana
Project Role
Site Principal Investigator
Funder
US National Institutes of Health Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network.
Amount
US$ 32,000
Start Date
End Date
Prices, Peers And Perceptions: Field Experiments On Technology Adoption In The Context Of Improved Cookstoves.
Project Role
Site Principal Investigator
Funder
US National Institutes of Health Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network and US National Science Foundation
Amount
USD 300,000
Start Date
End Date
Household Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditures Tracking For Disease Specific Health Account And Universal Health Coverage Measure
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
Work Bank through INDEPT Network.
Amount
US$ 300,000
Start Date
End Date
Hidden Cost To Utilization Of Reproductive Health Services In The Upper East Region
Project Role
Principal Investigator
Funder
The Presbyterian Health Service-North and SIMAVI, Netherland
Amount
GH¢ 50,000
Start Date
End Date
Study On Financing For Primary Health Care In Ghana
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
JICA
Amount
US$ 20,000
Start Date
End Date
Improving The Quality Of Maternal And Neonatal Care
Project Role
Co-investigator
Funder
European Union
Amount
Euro 436,000
Start Date
End Date
An Assessment Of The Impact Of The Navrongo “Zurugelu” Approach On Men’s Concerns About Family Planning And Reproductive Health Services
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
Melinda Gates Foundation through Columbia University
Amount
US$ 120,000
Start Date
End Date
A Socio-Economic Study Of The Impact Of Meningitis In The Kassena-Nankana District
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
Google Trust Fund
Amount
US$115,000
Start Date
Moral Hazard Behaviors Under The National Health Insurance Scheme In The Kassena-Nankana District Of Ghana
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
West Africa Health Organization (WAHO)
Amount
$ 17,000
Start Date
End Date
Health Care Delivery In Urban Communities In Africa Using The Community Directed Intervention (Cdi) Approach
Project Role
Co-Investigator
Funder
UNICEF/UNDP/World bank/WHO).
Amount
US$50,000
Start Date
End Date
Indepth Effectiveness And Safety Studies Of Antimalarials In Africa
Project Role
Site leader on costing module
Funder
Melinda Gates Foundation through INDEPTH network
Amount
US$ 2,300,000
Start Date
End Date
Conference
11Th Edcpt Forum, Paris, France
Role / Position
Poster Presenter
Event Name
11th EDCPT Forum
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Poster Presentation: Breaking the silence of female genital schistosomiasis in Ghana’s health system: A case of health workers within the FAST project
2022 International Society Of Behavioural Nutrition And Physical Activity (Isbnpa) Annual Virtual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Usa:
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
2022 International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) Annual Virtual Meeting
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral Presentation on the paper: Choosing Nutrition Interventions All Together: Implementing community priority setting tools in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nutrition Society Conference, Virtual
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Nutrition Society Conference
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral Presentation on the paper: Engaging the public in priority setting for nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
32Nd Annual Conference Of The International Society For Environmental Epidemiology, Virtual Conference.
Role / Position
Poster Presenter
Event Name
32nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Poster presentation on the paper: Cleaner cooking with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Northern Ghana: Interdisciplinary experiment measuring willingness to pay, behavior change, and impacts on personal exposure
Ghana Priorities Review Roundtables, Accra, Ghana:
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Ghana Priorities Review Roundtables
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Increasing the use of clean cooking fuels in Ghana: A cost benefit analysis of three interventions
World Congress Of Environmental And Resource Economists (Wcere), Gothenburg, Sweden,
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE)
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Prices Pears and Perceptions: Field experiments on technology adoption in the context of improved cookstoves in northern Ghana.
Household Air Pollution Monitoring And Training Workshop, Accra, Ghana.
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Household air pollution monitoring and training workshop
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Organized by the Global Alliance for clean cookstoves. Oral presentation on the paper: Clean cookstoves studies at the Navrongo Health Research Centre
Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network Conference, Bethesda, Md, Washington Dc, Usa.
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network conference, Bethesda, MD, Washington DC, USA.
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Prices Pears and Perceptions: Field experiments on technology adoption in the context of improved cookstoves in northern Ghana
Knowledge Sharing On Out-Of-Pocket Payments For Health Services, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Knowledge sharing on Out-of-pocket payments for health services
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Household Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures Tracking for Disease Specific Health Account and Unversal Health Coverage Measure: Developing Household OOP Estimation Measurement Methodology
Prince Mahidol Award Conference (Pmac), Bangkok, Thailand.
Role / Position
Poster Presenter
Event Name
Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC)
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Poster presentation on the paper: Cost-Effectiveness of Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) in improving Prenatal And Maternal Care In Ghana
Third Global Symposium On Health Systems Research Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research conference
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: The effects of Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) on contraceptive knowledge and use, reproductive preferences, and health: case of Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana
Population Association Of America (Paa) Conference, Boston, Usa
Role / Position
Poster Presenter
Event Name
Population Association of America (PAA) conference
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Poster presentation on the paper: An exploration of moral hazard behaviors under the national health insurance scheme in northern Ghana
Indepth Scientific Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
INDEPTH scientific conference
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Does the national health insurance scheme in Ghana reduce household cost of treating malaria?
Second Global Health Symposium On Health Systems Research, Beijing, China
Role / Position
Poster Presenter
Event Name
Second Global Health Symposium on Health Systems Research
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Poster presentation on the paper: To insure or not to insure: The influence of insurance status on health seeking behaviour in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana
European Conference On Health Economics, Zurich, Switzerland
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
European Conference on Health Economics
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Cost of maternal health services in selected primary care centres in Ghana: a step-down allocation approach
American Society Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene (Astmh) 60Th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Usa
Role / Position
Poster Presenter
Event Name
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 60th Annual Meeting
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Poster presentation on the paper: Meningitis in Ghana: A socio-economic study of the impact in the Kassena-Nankana (K-N) district
Combined Data Analysis And Proposal/Protocol Development Workshop For Multi-Country Studies In Community Directed Interventions (Cdi) In Specific Health Care Settings In Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa
Role / Position
Oral Presenter
Event Name
Combined data analysis and proposal/protocol development workshop for multi-Country studies in Community Directed interventions (CDI) in specific health care settings in Africa
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Oral presentation on the paper: Exploring the Feasibility of Improving Urban Health Care Delivery Using Community Directed Intervention Approach in Northern Ghana
Workshop
Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) On Implementation Research 2022 (Afr): African Regional Training Centre Sponsored By Tdr
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Clinical Telemedicine Training And Certification: Medical City Online (Uk) And University Of Ghana
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Leadership And Management In Health: University Of Washington
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Monitoring And Evaluation In Global Health: University Of Washington,
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Introduction To Health Economics Evaluation, University Of Southampton
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Economic Evaluation In Global Health: University Of Washington
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
International Summer School On Social Protection In Developing Countries And Qualitative Research Methods: At The University Of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date
Other Relevant Info
Sponsored by International Centre for Development and Decent Work (UNIKASSEL), Germany.
Health Social Sciences For Implementation Research: Accra Ghana,
Role / Position
Participant
Start Date
End Date