Dr. Ama Pokuaa Fenny

Position:
Research Fellow

Email:
amafenny@yahoo.co.uk

Ama Pokuaa Fenny is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economics Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Since 2005, she has researched and published in the area of developmental issues in health economics, health service delivery, social protection and gender based analysis. Having spent the past six years researching on the effects of health financing reforms on access to healthcare in Ghana, she is passionate about finding ways to ensure that vulnerable groups are not left out. In 2016, she was accepted as a West Africa Global Health Leaders Fellow, with the Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House. Her research with the centre focused on how the poor could be integrated into social health insurance programs in Sub Saharan African countries. She has also carried out a number of expenditure tracking surveys and health expenditure reviews with country experience across West and East Africa. She has a PhD in Health Economics from the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark; MSc in Health, Population & Society from the London School of Economics & Political Science (UK) and BA in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Ghana.

Health systems and policy
Health financing
Quality of care
Ecology and Health
Gender and development

Alvarado G, Fenny A. P, Dakey S, Mueller J. L, O'Brien-Milne L, Crentsil O. A, Duvvury N, Scriver S, Schwenke C, (2018) "The health-related impacts and costs of violence against women and girls on survivors, households and communities in Ghana”. Journal of Public Health in Africa. 9(860), http://sci-hub.tw/10.4081/jphia.2018.860

Fenny A.P, Asuman D., Crentsil A.O., Odame D.N.A, (2018) "Trends and causes of socioeconomic inequalities in maternal healthcare in Ghana, 2003–2014", International Journal of Social Economics, http://sci-hub.tw/10.1108/IJSE-03-2018-0148

Kusi A., Fenny A.P., Arhinful D.K., Asante A.F., Parmar D., (2018) "Determinants of enrolment in the NHIS for women in Ghana – a cross sectional study", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 45 Issue: 9, pp.1318-1334, http://sci-hub.tw/10.1108/IJSE-10-2016-0291

Fenny, A. P., Yates, R., & Thompson, R. (2018). Social health insurance schemes in Africa leave out the poor. International Health. doi:10.1093/inthealth/ihx046

Fenny, A. P., Crentsil A.O., & Asuman D. (2017). Determinants and Distribution of Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Knowledge in Ghana. Global Journal of Health Science, 9(12). doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v9n12p32

Fenny, A.P., Crentsil, A.O. & Ackah, C. (2017). The Health MDGs in Ghana: Lessons and Implications for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Public Health, 25(1) doi.org/10.1007/s10389-017-0854-8

Fenny, A. P. (2017). Live to 70 Years and Older or Suffer in Silence: Understanding Health Insurance Status Among the Elderly Under the NHIS in Ghana. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 29(4), 352-370. doi:10.1080/08959420.2017.1328919

Fenny, A. P. (2017). Ghana’s Path to an Industrial–Led Growth: The Role of Decentralisation Policies. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 9(11). doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v9n11p22

Fenny, A. P., Kusi, A., Arhinful, D. K., & Asante, F. A. (2016). Factors contributing to low uptake and renewal of health insurance: a qualitative study in Ghana. Global Health Research and Policy, 1(1). doi:10.1186/s41256-016-0018-3

Fenny, A. P., Asante, F. A., Arhinful, D. K., Kusi, A., Parmar, D., & Williams, G. (2016). Who uses outpatient healthcare services under Ghana’s health protection scheme and why? BMC Health Services Research, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1429-z

Fenny, AP, Asante, FA, Enemark, U & Hansen, KS 2015, ‘Malaria care seeking behavior of individuals in Ghana under the NHIS: Are we back to the use of informal care?’ BMC Public Health 2015, 15:370

Fenny, AP, Asante, FA, Enemark, U & Hansen, KS 2015, Treatment-seeking Behaviour and Social Health Insurance in Africa: the Case of Ghana under the National Health Insurance Scheme' Global Journal of Health Science, Vol 7 (1)

Asante FA, Arhinful DK, Fenny AP, Kusi A., “Who is Excluded in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme and Why: a Social, Political, Economic and Cultural (SPEC) analysis” (2014), in Health Inc - Towards Equitable Coverage and more Inclusive Social Protection in Health/ edited by B. Criel, V. De Brouwere, W. Van Damme and B. Marchal. Studies in Health Services Organisation & Policy (SHSOP), 32, 2014. ITG Press, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000, Antwerp, Belgium.

Fenny AP, Asante FA, Arhinful DK, Kusi A., “Safeguarding Individual’s Utilisation of Healthcare:the Case of the NHIS in Ghana” (2014), in Health Inc - Towards Equitable Coverage and more Inclusive Social Protection in Health/ edited by B. Criel, V. De Brouwere, W. Van Damme and B. Marchal. Studies in Health Services Organisation & Policy (SHSOP), 32, 2014. ITG Press, Nationalestraat 155, B-2000, Antwerp, Belgium.

Fenny, AP, Hansen, KS, Enemark, U & Asante, FA 2014, ‘Quality of Uncomplicated Malaria Case Management in Ghana among Insured and Uninsured’ International Journal for Equity in Health, 13:63

Fenny, AP, Hansen, KS, Asante, FA & Enemark, U 2014, 'Patient Satisfaction with Primary Health Care – A Comparison between the insured and non-insured under the National Health Insurance Policy in Ghana' Global Journal of Health Science, Vol 6(4)

Osei-Akoto, I., Adamba, C., Fenny, A. P., and Tsikata, D., (2013), “Client Power and Access to Quality Health Care: An Assessment of Ghana's Health Insurance System”, Journal of African Development, Vol. 15(1).

Ackah, Charles, Clement Ahiadeke, and Ama Pokuaa Fenny. "Determinants of Labour Force Participation in Ghana." (2009). GDN Working Paper Series. Working Paper No. 14. September 2009

Dela Tsikata, Ama Pokuaa Fenny and Ernest Aryeetey (2008) China – Africa Relations: A Case Study of Ghana Paper No. SSC_04 Category: Scoping Studies on China-Africa Economic Relations