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Bawah, Ayaga A., James F. Phillips, Martin Adjuik, Fred N. Binka, and Maya Vaughan-Smith. 2006. “Immunizations, poverty and child survival in Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana,” presentation at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, 30 March–2 April.

Phillips, James F. and Ayaga A. Bawah. 2006. “What have we learned since the first AGM? The Plus Perfect demographic surveillance system,” presentation at INDEPTH Network Annual General Meeting, Ouagadougou, September.

Adongo, Philip B., Elizabeth Jackson, Livesy Abokyi, Reshma Naik, Ellie S. Feinglass, and James F. Phillips. 2005. “Can community-based interventions change detrimental social norms? Experience from the Navrongo female genital mutilation experiment,” presentation at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, 31 March–2 April.

Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Ellie S. Feinglass, James F. Phillips, and Maya Vaughan-Smith. 2005. “Chasing children in rural Ghana: Do Community-based Health Planning and Services improve the chances of complete and correct child immunization?” presentation at the American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, 10–14 December.

Awoonor-Williams, John Koku, Frank K. Nyonator, Maya Vaughan-Smith, Ellie Feinglass, and James F. Phillips. 2005. “Does Community-based Health Planning and Services increase access to family planning in rural Ghana? A case study of Nkwanta District,” presentation at the American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, 10–14 December.

Bawah, Ayaga Agula and James F. Phillips. 2005. “Does women's relative income predict contraceptive use in Ghana? An assessment using bargaining theory," presentation at XXV IUSSP International Population Conference, Tours, 18–23 July.

Jackson, Elizabeth F., Philip B. Adongo, Ayaga A. Bawah, Ellie Feinglass, and James F. Phillips. 2005. “The relationship between female genital cutting and fertility in Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana.” presentation at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, 31 March–2 April.

Nyonator, Frank K., Agyeman Badu Akosa, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, James F. Phillips, and Tanya C. Jones. 2005. “Scaling up experimental project success with the Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative in Ghana," presentation at the American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, 10–14 December.

Nyonator, Frank K., John Koku Awoonor-Williams, James F. Phillips, Agyeman Badu Akosa, and Delanyo Dovlo. 2005. “Accelerating the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative: A move to achieving the health MDGs in Ghana,” presentation at the American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, 10–14 December.

Nyonator, Frank, James F. Phillips, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, and Adams Kasanga. 2005. “The impact of decentralized district partnering on scaling up community-based health sector reform in Ghana,” presentation at XXV IUSSP International Population Conference, Tours, 18–23 July. 

Nyonator, Frank, James F. Phillips, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, and Adams Kasanga. 2005. “The impact of district partnering on scaling-up community-based health sector reform in Ghana,” presentation at Global Health Council 32nd Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 31 May–3 June.

Phillips, James F. 2005. “Keynote address: “Applying demographic surveillance to monitoring progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Lessons from the past, recent innovations, and prospects for the future,“ presentation at Federation of Canadian Demographers Special Conference on Longitudinal Studies and Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century, Montreal, November.

Phillips, James F. and Frank Nyonator. 2005. “Utilizing demographic surveillance-based trials for health and family planning program development in Bangladesh and Ghana," presentation at INDEPTH Network Annual General Meeting, Durban, May.

Adongo, Philip B., James F. Phillips, Rofina Asuru, Ellie S. Feinglass, and Abraham Hodgson. 2004. “Addressing men's concerns about reproductive health services in a rural community mobilization program,” presentation at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1–3 April.

Akazili, James, Henry V. Doctor, Livesy Abokyi, Abraham Hodgson, and James F. Phillips. 2004. “Antenatal care and place of delivery in rural northern Ghana,” presentation at the American Public Health Association 132nd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Washington, DC, 6–10 November

Akweongo, Patricia, Elizabeth Jackson, Reshma Naik, James F. Phillips. 2004. “The preliminary impact of a broad-based intervention to decrease the incidence of female genital mutilation: Lessons learned from the Navrongo FGC Experiment,” presentation at the Global Health Council 31st Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 1–4 June.

Baiden Frank, Abraham Hodgson, John Williams, Cornelius Debpuur, James F. Phillips, Fred Binka. 2004. “Changing epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Ghana: Any link to the civil war in neighbouring La Cote d’Ivoire?” presentation at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1–3 April.

Binka, Fred, Ayaga Agula Bawah, James F. Phillips, Bruce MacLeod, and Mian Bazle Hossain. 2004. “The role of childhood mortality in fertility transition in a rural Sahelian district of northern Ghana,” presentation at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 1–3 April.

Nyonator, Frank, Tanya C. Jones, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, James F. Phillips, and Adams Kasanga. 2004. “The impact of district partnering the pace of reform in community-based health services in Ghana,” presentation at Global Forum for Health Research Annual Meeting: Forum 8, Health Research to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, Mexico City, 16–20 November.