Prof. Dr. Wiebke Arlt
Health, Endocrinology
Health
Public Health
Health Policy and Systems
Health Financing, Universal Health Coverage
Systems Thinking
Maternal and Newborn Health
Professor Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development; University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2008 – 2010
Arnold Kalunzy Distinguished Alumni Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Public Health Leadership program, School of Public Health; 2008
English
Comment: Making sense of health estimates. www.thelancet.com. Published online March 19, 2015. Irene Agyepong, Tumani Corrah, Yan Guo, Bruce Hollingsworth, Micheal Klag, Kim Longfield, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Peter Piot, JVR Prasda Rao, John-Arne Rottingen, Peter Smith, Marc Sprenger, Trevor Sutton, Sarah Curran, Edmond SW Ng on behalf of the Independent Advisory Committee to the Global Burden of Disease.
Agyepong I.A., Aryeetey G.C., Nonvignon J., Asenso-Boadi F., Dzikunu H., Antwi E., Ankrah D., Adjei-Acquah C., Esena R., Aikins M., Arhinful D.K. (2014) Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme – a systems approach. Health Res Policy Syst. 2014 Aug 5;12:35.
Aberese Ako M., van Djik H., Gerrits T., Arhinful D.K., Agyepong I.A. (2014) "Your health our concern, our health whose concern?": perceptions of injustice in organizational relationships and processes and frontline health worker motivation in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning Volume 29 Supplement 2 October 2014 ISSN 0268-1080. Pp ii15 – ii28
Kwamie A., van Dijk H., Agyepong I.A. (2014) Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: realist evaluation of the Leadership Development Program for district manager decision making in Ghana. Health Research Policy and Systems. 12.29. doi 10.1186/1478-4505-12-29
Oduro-Mensah E, Kwamie A, Antwi E, Amissah Bamfo S, Bainson HM, Marfo B., Mary Amoakoh Coleman M., Grobbee D.E., Agyepong I.A. (2013) Care Decision Making of Frontline Providers of Maternal and Newborn Health Services in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. PLoS ONE 8(2): e55610. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055610
Agyepong I.A., Kodua A., Adjei S., and Adam T. (2012) "When solutions of yesterday become problems of today": Crisis ridden decision making in a complex adaptive system. Health Policy and Planning 27. Doi 10/1093/heapol czs 083
Agyepong I.A., Nabyonga-Orem J., Hercot D. (2011) When the non workable ideological best becomes the enemy of the imperfect but workable good. Tropical Medicine and International Health. Volume 16 No. 1 pp 105 – 109
Agyepong IA, Nagai RA. (2011) "We charge them; otherwise we cannot run the hospital" front line workers, clients and health financing policy implementation gaps in Ghana. Health Policy 99. Pp 226 – 233
Agyepong I.A. & Adjei S. (2008) Public Social Policy Development and Implementation: A Case Study of the Ghana National health Insurance Scheme. Health Policy and Planning 2008; 23: pp 150 – 160
Rockefeller Grant 2013 THS 307 to support the Development of a Pan African Health Leadership Doctoral Program. Scientific Leader and Coordinator of Rockefeller Foundation supported work to establish a Professional Doctoral Program in Health Leadership for Africa (DRPH – HLA). A partnership between University of Ghana SPH, UNC-Chapel Hill SPH, University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape SPH and Makerere University SPH. July 1, 2013 – January 31, 2016
IDRC Research Support Grant. Strengthening in country Health Systems Research Capacity in West Africa. 107694-001. Scientific Leader. April 1, 2014 – Sep 30th 2015
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/WOTRO) project: "Accelerating progress towards attainment of MDG 4 & 5 in Ghana" Project involves research and capacity building (5 Ghanaian and 1 Nigerian PhD candidates are being trained in Health Policy and Systems, Medical and Organizational Anthropology and Epidemiology) Collaborating partners: University Medical Center, Utrecht; and Wagninengen University. February 1, 2011 – Dec 2016
Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA). PI for University of Ghana, School of Public Health team
Health Systems Global – Board Member
Ghana Medical Association (GMA) – Member
Public Health Physicians Association of Ghana (PHPAG) – Member
International Health Economics Association (iHEA) – Member
African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) – Board Member
Ghana Health Economics and Policy Association (GHEPA) – Member
Independent Advisory Committee (IAC) for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) – Member
Member of the Scientific Oversight Group (SOG), Institute for Health Metrics, University of Washington
Chair of the Board of Health Systems Global, 2012 – 2014
Chair of the Executive Committee for the organization of the 3rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, 2012 – 2014
Foundation Fellow Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons – Public Health
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