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Program Officer Profile Philomena Efua Nyarko is a program officer with the Population Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health program. She provides technical assistance for operations research projects undertaken by Ghanaian partner organizations to test strategies for improving reproductive health service delivery. Her work also involves building the capacity of these organizations to produce and use operations research to ensure access to high-quality reproductive health services. Nyarko's research interests include maternal and child health and demographic issues in general. Prior to joining the Population Council, she was a staff member at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she taught postgraduate courses in technical demography. Nyarko also has extensive research experience, having worked with the Navrongo Health Research Centre as a postdoctoral Mellon Fellow from 1999 to 2001 and with the Ghana Statistical Service, first as a statistician and finally as a principal statistician from 1987 to 1996. Her work at the Ghana Statistical Service involved planning and implementing statistical surveys, preparing statistical reports, and disseminating survey findings. As the head of the Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) at the Navrongo Health Research Centre, she had the overall responsibility of managing and supervising field operations, analyzing and disseminating data, and providing statistical and demographic support to other units within the Centre, particularly the Community Health and Family Planning project. Nyarko has a doctorate in social statistics from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom and a postgraduate diploma in population studies from the University of Ghana.
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