ABOUT DR. RAYMOND ABORIGO 

Dr. Raymond Akawire Aborigo holds a PhD with focus in Global Public Health from MONASH University. He is a Deputy Chief Health Research Officer at the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC), a unit under the Research and Development Division of the Ghana Health Service.
Dr. Aborigo began his journey in research as a field data collector at NHRC where he worked for one month before proceeding to the University of Ghana for his undergraduate studies in 1997. He completed his studies in 2000 and rejoined the Centre for his national service as a Research Assistant and later as a Research Officer in 2007 after successfully completing a Masters in Public Health at the same university.  Since then, Dr. Aborigo has coordinated the implementation of several research projects both in the biomedical and social and behavioural research fields. He has also co-investigated a number of research projects and is currently a co-investigator on a study to develop best practices in community engagement for genomics and bio-banking in Africa and another that seeks to assess mechanisms of impact of Ghana’s LEAP1000 cash transfer program. Dr. Aborigo is currently the principal investigator of a Fogarty funded research that seeks to assess HIV testing during ANC and partner disclosure in a patriarchal setting in rural Ghana and a WaterAid, Ghana funded research that seeks to conduct a situational analysis of WASH in health care facilities in the Upper East Region of Ghana.

Dr. Aborigo’s research interest is broad and covers a number of research areas in public health. He has focused on using social science methodologies to explain different phenomena within health systems with most of his research focused on improving our understanding of the factors that contribute to maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in rural communities. Specifically, Dr. Aborigo has researched traditional treatments and control mechanisms and how they have evolved and whether traditional practices co-exist with or have given way to modern treatments for maternal complications. He has interest in research ethics as well as verbal and social autopsy methodologies which are used to determine cause of death in low-resourced countries. He is currently working with a team in the University of Michigan and other researchers in Africa to field-test social autopsy and socio-cultural audit tools within selected Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites with the hope of publishing them for use globally. In the long-term, Dr. Aborigo intends to develop and implement a package of health interventions that translate into policies and programs to address the health of women and children. He also plans to combine research with teaching in one of Ghana’s universities in order to mentor and facilitate the sharing of his knowledge and skills with the future generation.
Dr. Aborigo has consulted for many international organisations including the INDEPTH Network, WHO, UNICEF, USAID, CRS, CDC-Atlanta and the Second year of life vaccines platform. His services have centred around implementation research, evaluation of health interventions, training in research methods and the use of human centred designs.
With 19 years experience in health research, Dr. Aborigo has mentored several young researchers and currently has over forty-two publications to his credit. He conducts peer reviews for BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Global Health Action, BMC Public Health, the Frontiers journal and others. He is also an Academic Editor for the PLosOne journal and an Associate Editor for BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Dr. Aborigo can be reached through the following address:
E-mail: raymond.aborigo@navrongo-hrc.org or rayborigo@yahoo.com
Mob: +233 (0)205908860