Dr. Mavis Pearl Kwabla is a Senior lecturer with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, F.N. Binka School of Public Health. She is also the Coordinator of the Sandwich Programme of her school. She currently holds a PhD degree in Epidemiology from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Hanover Medical School in Germany. Her PhD research evaluated the tuberculosis surveillance system in Ghana using capture-recapture method and assessed the contribution of community medicine outlets in TB case detection.
Work experience
Prior to her appointment with the University in 2014, Pearl worked as a Senior Technical Officer (Disease Control Officer/TB/EPI Coordinator) at the New Juaben Municipal Health Directorate, Ghana Health Service in Koforidua. She had also worked as a Teaching Assistant with UHAS on secondment from the Ghana Health Service where she was part of a 5-member team that developed the vocational training curriculum for the school of Public Health. She was involved in mapping out health facilities and public health related amenities using Geographic Information System (GIS) as part of community needs assessment in 7 districts of the Volta region of which one publication was realized with Pearl as first author.
In addition to teaching and supervising undergraduate students’ dissertations, she was appointed the Coordinator for the Vocational Training Programme of the school of public health (2015-2016) where she saw to the practical needs of the students as well as drawing up schedules for supervision by lecturers. She also coordinated the curriculum development of the Master of Public Health (MPH) program which received accreditation from both the National Accreditation Board and the National Council for Tertiary Education.
List of courses taught by Pearl included Introduction to public health, Principles of disease control, Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI), Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR), Control of emerging and re-emerging diseases, Institutional Development and Sector Management and Emergency preparedness and disaster management. She also assisted in teaching non-communicable diseases, Emergency preparedness and outbreak investigations and Public Health Legislation, regulation and enforcement.
Pearl served as an adhoc committee member on APMC to review the Mphil in Applied Epidemiology curriculum and as a member of the school board for the School of Public Health. She also served as community entry officer for the proposed Ebola phase 1 trial and a member of the cholera outbreak investigation team that assisted in curbing the spread of the 2014 Cholera outbreak in Hohoe as well as serving as Chaplaincy Representative for SPH. Currently, Pearl is serving as a member of the teaching and learning committee involved in reviewing the Bachelor Public Health curriculum. a co-chair of the FNBSPH Community, Alumni and Allied Health Council Relations Implementation Committee and a mentor of the Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (GFELTP).
Science/Research Output: 16 publications in peer-reviewed journals
Selected Publications
□ Kwabla MP, Amuasi JH, Krause G, Dormechele W, Takramah W, Kye-Duodu G, Osei E, Der J, Baiden F, Adusi-Poku Y, Binka FN, Castell S. Completeness of tuberculosis case notification in Ghana: record linkage and capture-recapture analysis of three TB registries. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2025 Feb 12;25(1):206.
□ Osei, E., Amu, H., Kye-Duodu, G., Kwabla, M. P., Danso, E., Binka, F. N., & Kim, S. Y. (2025). Impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis and HIV health services delivery in Ghana: qualitative evidence from the perspectives of healthcare providers. BMC Health Services Research, 25(1), 358.
□ Gmayinaam VU, Nortey AN, Sedode S, Apedo SK, Kye-Duodu G, Kwabla P, Osei E, Ananga MK. Work-related stress among nurses: a comparative cross-sectional study of two government hospitals in Ghana. BMC Public Health. 2024 Dec;24(1):1-1.