SA

This Expert's name is Samuel Kojo Antobam

This Expert's occupation is Health Systems Expert
This Expert's location is Ghana
This Expert's nationality is Ghanaian

Snapshot

Experience

5+ years

Languages

English, French

Countries of Work

Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Areas of Expertise

  • Training
  • Social accountability and community advocacy for health
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Provider payment
  • Change management
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Regulation and enforcement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Civil registration and vital statistics
  • Claims management systems
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease registries
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health management information systems
  • Health-related surveys
  • Interoperability of information systems
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Knowledge management software
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Fiscal space analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Licensing and accreditation
  • Medical audit
  • Pharmaceutical management
  • PHC
  • Quality and quality assurance
  • Service delivery networks
  • Specialty care
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
Statistical Analyses and Statistical modeling,
Stakeholder coordination
Migrant Health outcomes
Skill development

Education

  • University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Graduated 2020
    Certificate in Advanced Project Management
  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Graduated 2012
    Ph.D in Demography and Population Studies/Health
  • University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Graduated 2006
    MA in Demography and Population Studies/Health

Publications

  • . Marlow H.M, Awal A.M, Antobam SK., Azumah S., Regan E. 2018. “Men’s support for abortion and FP

    Published Jul 2018
  • Shallenberg, K., Antobam SK., Voetagbe G. (2017). “Determining the accuracy of pregnancy by women"

    Published Apr 2017
  • Antobam, S.K (2016) “Migration, Savings and Business Investment in Rural South Africa"

    Published Jan 2016
  • Antobam, S.K (2010) "Sex Differentials in Child Mortality: Does Lineage System Matter?"

    Published Jun 2010
  • Antobam, S.K (2010) “Is there Salvation after Debt? An Awareness of the Socioeconomic Dimension ...

    Published Aug 2000

Affiliations

Population Association of America
International Union for Scientific Study of Populations
Union of African Population Studies
South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association

Areas of Expertise

  • Training
  • Social accountability and community advocacy for health
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Provider payment
  • Change management
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Regulation and enforcement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Civil registration and vital statistics
  • Claims management systems
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease registries
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health management information systems
  • Health-related surveys
  • Interoperability of information systems
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Knowledge management software
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Fiscal space analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Licensing and accreditation
  • Medical audit
  • Pharmaceutical management
  • PHC
  • Quality and quality assurance
  • Service delivery networks
  • Specialty care
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
Statistical Analyses and Statistical modeling,
Stakeholder coordination
Migrant Health outcomes
Skill development

Affiliations

Population Association of America
International Union for Scientific Study of Populations
Union of African Population Studies
South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association